The Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspectives, Two Decades Later

, by Jonas, Andrew E. G.

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ISBN: 9780791442609 | 0791442608
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/1/1999

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

Tables and Figures

Preface

Introduction

The City as a Growth Machine: Critical Reflections Two Decades Later

(18)

Andrew E. G. Jonas

David Wilson

PART 1 URBAN GROWTH: IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE

Ideology and the Growth Coalition

(16)

Kevin R. Cox

Urban Imagineers: Boosterism and the Representation of Cities

(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

(18)

Mark Boyle

PART 2 NEW DIMENSIONS OF URBAN POLITICS

The Character and Consequences of Growth Regimes: An Assessment of Twenty Years of Research

(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

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

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