{"id":17,"date":"2025-06-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zarifir.ir\/?p=17"},"modified":"2025-06-15T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T05:30:00","slug":"review-city-financial-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zarifir.ir\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The City as a Financial Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book is at its best when mapping the mundane instruments\u2014bonds, ratings, refinancing cycles\u2014through which cities become financial assets.<\/p>\n<h2>What it gets right<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Clear mechanism tracing from budget constraints to governance choices.<\/li>\n<li>Attention to how fiscal tools redistribute risk downward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What it misses<\/h2>\n<p>The analysis under-theorizes collective action and treats community response as episodic rather than institutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sharp account of how municipal finance quietly governs urban futures\u2014strong on mechanisms, weaker on resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,12,11],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-book-review","tag-finance","tag-urban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zarifir.ir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zarifir.ir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zarifir.ir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zarifir.ir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zarifir.ir\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zarifir.ir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zarifir.ir\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zarifir.ir\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zarifir.ir\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}