Political Science 3364F/G Chapter Notes -Environmental Policy, Boosterism, Ombudsman
6 Dec 2012
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The city as a growth machine: toward a political economy of place barbara. A city is conceived as the areal expression of the interests of some land based elite. An elite is seen to profit through the increasing intensification of the land use of the area in which its members hold a common interest. Governmental authority at the local and nonlocal levels is utilized to assist in achieving this growth at the expense of competing localities. Conventional definitions of city, urban space, or metropolis have led to conventional analyses of urban systems and urban based social problems. Few notions available to link the two issues coherently focusing on the urban settlement as a political economy. The desire for growth provides the operative motivation toward consensus for members of politically mobilized local elites. The very essence of a locality is its operation as a growth machine.
