Winner of the 1981 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, or international affairs."City Limits radically reinterprets urban politics by deriving its dominant forces from the logic of the American federal structure. It is thereby able to explain some pervasive tendencies of urban political outcomes that are puzzling or scarcely noticed at all when cities are viewed as autonomous units, outside the federal framework. Professor Peterson's analysis is imaginativelyfor conceived and skillfully carried through. His beautifully finished volume will lastingly alter our understanding of urban affairs in America."-from the citation by the selection committee for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award
- ISBN10 0226662926
- ISBN13 9780226662923
- Publish Date 1 July 1981
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 280
- Language English