Business Elites and Urban Development: Case Studies and Critical Perspectives

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ISBN-13: 9780887065781
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 4/28/1988
Series: SUNY series in Urban Public Policy Series
Pages: 395

Contributors

Introduction

1. Private Enterprise and Public Policy: Business Hegemony in the Metropolis

SCOTT CUMMINGS

Part One: Business Elites and the Growth Agenda

2. Strategies and Constraints of Growth Elites

HARVEY MOLOTCH

3. The Role of the Performing Arts in Urban Competition and Growth

J. ALLEN WHITT

4. Public Investment in Private Businesses: The Professional Sports Mania

MARK S. ROSENTRAUB

5. Public Policy and Private Benefits: The Case of Industrial Revenue Bonds

THOMAS S. MOORE and GREGORY D. SQUIRES

Part Two: Business Elites and Local Government

6. Urban Populism, Uneven Development, and the Space for Reform

TODD SWANSTROM

7. Municipal Code Enforcement and Urban Development:Private Decisions and Public Policy in an American City

SCOTT CUMMINGS and EDMOND SNIDER

8. Chicago's North Loop Redevelopment Project: A Growth Machine on Hold

LARRY BENNETT, KATHLEEN MCCOURT, PHILIP W. NYDEN, and GREGORY D. SQUIRES

Part Three: The Social Costs of Urban Growth and Decline

9. Tallying the Social Costs of Urban Growth Under Capitalism: The Case of Houston

JOE R. FEAGIN

10. Downriver: Deindustrialization in Southwest Detroit

RICHARD CHILD HILL and MICHAEL INDERGAARD

11. Disinvestment and Economic Decline in Northeastern Pennsylvania: The Failures of a Local Business Elite's Growth Agenda

THOMAS J. KEIL

Part Four: Downtown Prosperity and Neighborhood Poverty

12. Urban Democracy and the Power of Corporate Capital: Struggles over Downtown Growth and Neighborhood Stagnation in Hartford, Connecticut

KENNETH J. NEUBECK and RICHARD E. RATCLIFF

13. Fiscal and Developmental Crises in Black Suburbs

JOHN R. LOGAN

14. The Limits to Neighborhood Power: Progressive Politics and Local Control in Santa Monica

DAVID S. DAYKIN

Index

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