The urban growth machine : critical perspectives two decades later / edited by Andrew E.G. Jonas and David Wilson.

Contributor Jonas, Andrew E. G., 1961-

Imprint:Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1999.

Descriptionxiii, 312 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Note:Chiefly essays presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers held in Charlotte, N.C. in 1996.

Note:INTRODUCTION: 1. The city as a growth machine: critical reflections two decades later / Andrew E.G. Jonas, David Wilson -- Part 1. URBAN GROWTH: IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE: 2. Ideology and the growth coalition / Kevin R. Cox -- 3. Urban imagineers: boosterism and the representation of cities / John Rennie Short -- 4. Growth machines and propaganda projects: a review of readings of the role of civic boosterism in the politics of local economic development / Mark Boyle -- Part 2. NEW DIMENSIONS OF URBAN POLITICS: 5. The character and consequences of growth regimes: an assessment of twenty years of research / John R. Logan, Rachel Bridges Whaley, Kyle Crowder -- 6. Place, politics, and the production of urban space: a feminist critique of the growth machine thesis / Melissa R. Gilbert -- 7. Redefining urban politics for the 21st century / Allan Cochrane -- 8. Reconstructing urban regime theory: regulation theory and institutional arrangements / Mickey Lauria -- 9. Retooling the machine: economic crisis, state restructuring, and urban politics / Bob Jessop, Jamie Peck, Adam Tickell -- Part 3. THE GROWTH MACHINE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: 10. Organizing for local economic development: the growth coalition as a cross-national comparativve framework / Andrew Wood -- 11. Growth coalitions in Britain's waning sunbelt: some reflections / Keieth Bassett -- 12. The politics of influence: democracy and the growth machine in Orange County, U.S. / Stephanie Pincetl -- 13. Employing the growth machine heuristic in a different political and economic context: the case of Israel / Andrew Kirby, Thabit Abu-Rass -- 14. Transcending interurban competition: conceptual issues and policy alternatives in the European Union / Helga Leitner, Eric Sheppard -- 15. Growth machine links: up, down, and across / Harvey Molotch.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-296) and index.

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