Harvey Molotchs thesis, regarding the "urban development growth machine," has been used as a conceptual basis for some of the more influential political-economic studies on urban development. It remains, however, purely descriptive. While this perspe...
Environment environment urban political perspective normative economy developmentWho is Sid Kali? I've written, directed, and produced two full-length urban features, CONSIGNMENT and IN WITH THIEVES, plus have a third feature in production titled STASH SPOT. Some people feel that when you attach the word urban to an indepe...
Music And Entertainment music entertainment urban film shootingBy adopting the market economic approach to local economic development, urban administrators are given the impression that they can do little more than "hunker down" and engage in increasingly more intense levels of competition within the "urban hier...
Business And Finance business finance urban perspective development market politics theseAbsent the types of decision-making arrangements that extend from the logic of democratic political theory, public managers may proceed without an intellectual basis for criticizing the negative effects of growth, the proliferation of barely-accounta...
Business And Finance business finance urban governance public democraticIn the routine politics of local government, economic development carries the greatest financial consequences. Similarly, most urban academics tend to describe and categorize local political regimes according to the way(s) in which they formulate and...
Legal legal urban local economic developmentThe term "urban regime" refers to the allocation of that which is valued (e.g., material resources, political power, and participation) among a group of persons according to an authoritatively-prescribed pattern of policymaking (Easton, 1965; Di Gae...
Government government urban policymaking theseThose who adhere to elitist theory suggest, without quite saying so, that the power elite is engaged in a conscious conspiracy. However, many elitists, including Mills, perceive subtle forces which enable members of the power structure to act in conc...
Family family power community urbanThe political-economic approach to local economic development is rooted in Marxist theory (Harvey, 1973). Although Marx never focused on urban economic development as a central theme, several of his followers have worked to develop a Marxist theory o...
Government government development economic urban political shlay publicIn practice, achieving effective governance in the modern metropolis requires much more than a normative perspective for contemplating urban futures. Indeed, local authorities must be prepared to deal with several "facts of life" which detail the ope...
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