ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a list of books and journal articles that is representative of research conducted into the relationship between politics and urban life. Many urban residents maintain that political activities are so intrinsic to events in the urban environment that it is difficult to separate a given event from its political overtones. The political nature of the municipal decision-making process is the focus of Power and Society in Greater New York, 1886– 1903: The Making of Major Decisions in the Metropolis by David C. Hammack. A different view of municipal decision-making is presented by Ira Katznelson's City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States. Using Marxist methodology, Katznelson examines the political battles waged in the Washington Heights-Inwood section of Manhattan during the 1960s and 1970s. Jon Teaford's City and Suburb: The Political Fragmentation of Metropolitan America investigates a different aspect of city governance: the relationship between the city and its suburbs.
