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Challenging the Growth Machine
Author | : Barbara Ferman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Economic development and urban growth are the contested grounds of urban politics. Business elites and politicians tend to forge "pro-growth" coalitions centered around downtown development while progressive and neighborhood activists counter with a more balanced approach that features a strong neighborhood component. Urban politics is often shaped by this conflict, which has intellectual as well as practical dimensions. In some cities, neighborhood interests have triumphed; in others, the pro-growth agenda has prevailed. In this illuminating comparative study, Barbara Ferman demonstrates why neighborhood challenges to pro-growth politics were much more successful in Pittsburgh than they were in Chicago. Operating largely in the civic arena, Pittsburgh's neighborhood groups encountered a political culture and institutional structure conducive to empowering neighborhood progressivism in housing and economic development policymaking. In contrast, the pro-growth agenda in Chicago was challenged in the electoral arena, which was dominated by machine, ward-based politicians who regarded any independent neighborhood organizing as a threat. Consequently, neighborhood demands for policymaking input were usually thwarted. Besides revealing why the development policies of two important American cities diverged, Ferman's unique comparative approach to this issue significantly expands the scope of urban analysis. Among other things, it provides the first serious study to incorporate the civic sector-neighborhood politics-as an important component of urban regimes. Ferman also emphasizes institutional and cultural factors-often ignored or relegated to residual roles in other studies-and expounds on their influence in shaping local politics and policy. To add an analytical and normative dimension to urban analysis, she focuses on the "non-elite" actors, not just the economic and political elites who compose governing coalitions. Ultimately, Ferman takes a more holistic and balanced view of large cities than is typical for urban studies as she argues that neighborhoods are an important, integral part of what cities are and can be. For that reason especially, her work will have a profound impact upon our understanding of urban politics.
Reforming Suburbia
Author | : Ann Forsyth |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2005-03-14 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0520241665 |
"Reforming Suburbia is a fascinating book. Forsyth examines the planned new towns of Columbia, Irvine, and The Woodlands through dozens of interviews with developers, designers, and residents as well as extensive archival research. She tackles complex public and private investments and asks how negotiations proceeded between government and real estate developers, all the while keeping an eye on the issues of race, gender, environmental sustainability, and marketing. This is required reading for anyone interested in the practice of American urban development."—Dolores Hayden, author of Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 "Ann Forsyth significantly enriches the fields of planning and architectural history with her thorough analysis of the social, ecological, and economic successes and shortcomings of these three prominent new communities. She offers valuable insights and wonderfully captures the idealistic spirit of the late 1960s and early 1970s."—Frederick Steiner, author of Human Ecology
The Urban Growth Machine
Author | : Association of American Geographers. Meeting |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1999-08-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780791442593 |
Two decades after Harvey Molotch’s “city as a growth machine,” this book offers a unique, critical assessment of his thesis.
Business Elites and Urban Development
Author | : Scott Cummings |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780887065774 |
Written in a non-technical, narrative style, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone concerned with current trends in urban development. During the Reagan era, responsibility for urban planning and development was transferred from government to private business. This private sector hegemony over urban development differs markedly from the liberal policy initiatives of the 1960s and 1970s. Through a series of case studies, this book examines these shifting trends and shows that private sector efforts to revitalize America's central cities have not been uniformly successful. The contributors, who are among America's leading social scientists, utilize neo-Marxist urban theory to explain the conditions under which private initiative enhances or erodes downtown redevelopment.
India, Industrialisation in a Reforming Economy
Author | : Suresh D. Tendulkar |
Publisher | : Academic Foundation |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9788171884889 |
Kosaraju Leela Krishna, b. 1935, Indian economist; contributed articles.
The Administration's Program to Reduce Unnecessary Regulatory Burden on Manufacturers--a Promise to be Kept?
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Oversight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Smart Growth Entrepreneurs
Author | : Erik Solevad Nielsen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 331941027X |
This book examines smart growth entrepreneurs—innovators in government, development companies, architectural firms, and other organizations, who coalesce to shift policies and markets toward green planning and building practices. Cities across the world are trying to manage their population and economic growth by implementing the design principles of Smart Growth and New Urbanism, developing green buildings that are compact, mixed-use, and in close proximity to transit services. How do innovators, governments, and markets interact in this planning and development process? The book profiles smart growth entrepreneurs and their projects in both Southern California and the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. The author highlights the unique obstacles, political and economic, that these actors encounter and details the centrality of markets and regulations in sustainable urban development.
Developing China
Author | : George C.S. Lin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2009-06-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134124910 |
In the first systematic documentation of the pattern and processes of land development taking place in China in the last two decades George C.S Lin advocates a fresh and innovative approach that goes beyond the privatization debate to probe directly into the social and political origins of land development. He demonstrates the special and paradoxical nature of China’s land development and challenges the perceived notion of a causal relationship between property rights definition, efficient land use, and sustained economic growth. In contrast to the existing literature in which changes in urban and rural land are treated separately, the rural-urban interface is shown to be the most significant and contentious locus of land development where competition for land has been intensified and social conflicts frequently erupted. Theoretically provocative and empirically well-grounded, Developing China provides a systematic, insightful, and authoritative account of the enormous development of China’s precious land resources. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars, students, and professional practitioners in the fields of development studies, political economy, regional political ecology, planning, economics, geography, land use management, and sustainable development with a special focus on contemporary China under market transition.