The Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspectives, Two Decades Later,9780791442593

The Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspectives, Two Decades Later

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ISBN13: 9780791442593
ISBN10: 0791442594
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-08-01
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

This book offers a unique, critical assessment of Harvey Molotch's thesis.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures
ix
Preface xi
Introduction
The City as a Growth Machine: Critical Reflections Two Decades Later
3(18)
Andrew E. G. Jonas
David Wilson
PART 1 URBAN GROWTH: IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE
Ideology and the Growth Coalition
21(16)
Kevin R. Cox
Urban Imagineers: Boosterism and the Representation of Cities
37(18)
John Rennie Short
Growth Machines and Propaganda Projects: A Review of Readings of the Role of Civic Boosterism in the Politics of Local Economic Development
55(18)
Mark Boyle
PART 2 NEW DIMENSIONS OF URBAN POLITICS
The Character and Consequences of Growth Regimes: An Assessment of Twenty Years of Research
73(22)
John R. Logan
Rachel Bridges Whaley
Kyle Crowder
Place, Politics, and the Production of Urban Space: A Feminist Critique of the Growth Machine Thesis
95(14)
Melissa R. Gilbert
Redefining Urban Politics for the Twenty-First Century
109(16)
Allan Cochrane
Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory: Regulation Theory and Institutional Arrangements
125(16)
Mickey Lauria
Retooling the Machine: Economic Crisis, State Restructuring, and Urban Politics
141(22)
Bob Jessop
Jamie Peck
Adam Tickell
PART 3 THE GROWTH MACHINE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Organizing for Local Economic Development: The Growth Coalition as a Cross-National Comparative Framework
163(14)
Andrew Wood
Growth Coalitions in Britain's Waning Sunbelt: Some Reflections
177(18)
Keith Bassett
The Politics of Influence: Democracy and the Growth Machine in Orange County, U.S.
195(18)
Stephanie Pincetl
Employing the Growth Machine Heuristic in a Different Political and Economic Context: The Case of Israel
213(14)
Andrew Kirby
Thabit Abu-Rass
Transcending Interurban Competition: Conceptual Issues and Policy Alternatives in the European Union
227(20)
Helga Leitner
Eric Sheppard
CONCLUSION
Growth Machine Links: Up, Down, and Across
247(20)
Harvey Molotch
References 267(30)
Biographical Notes 297(4)
Index 301

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