SSCI 165Lgw Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Some Cities, Endangered Species, Municipal Solid Waste
Document Summary
Growth machine: social construction of cities. Use value vs. exchange value in land. Exchange value: what it fetches on market. Use value: what it means to community; biodiversity local gov in us have most sig control over land use: places as commodities. Place entrepreneurs try to intensify land use to increase exchange values, cause differentiation/bifurcation in urban landscape (place inequality) Active entrepreneurs recognize atmosphere and use to advantage (e. g. area potentially increasing in value, should buy up land there) Structural entrepreneur tries to organize gov policies to increase value of land. Intensification of land use (gro(cid:449)th) does(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:374)sider people"s (cid:271)o(cid:374)ds to pla(cid:272)es or impacts on life chances. Key elements of growth machine: city as growth machine. Cities compete for capital; work to attract capital investment. Leads to collusion of elected officals w/elite capital interests for growth. Growth machine concept acknowledges oppositional movements built around use values. Growth machine concept discounts effectiveness of these movements: bargaining position counter-argument.
