Tables and Figures
Preface
INTRODUCTION
1. The City as a Growth Machine: Critical Reflections Two Decades Later
Andrew E. G. Jonas and David Wilson
PART 1. URBAN GROWTH: IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE
2. Ideology and the Growth Coalition
Kevin R. Cox
3. Urban Imagineers: Boosterism and the Representation of Cities
John Rennie Short
4. Growth Machines and Propaganda Projects: A Review of Readings of the Role of Civic Boosterism in the Politics of Local Economic Development
Mark Boyle
PART 2. NEW DIMENSIONS OF URBAN POLITICS
5. The Character and Consequences of Growth Regimes: An Assessment of Twenty Years of Research
John R. Logan, Rachel Bridges Whaley, and Kyle Crowder
6. Place, Politics, and the Production of Urban Space: A Feminist Critique of the Growth Machine Thesis
Melissa R. Gilbert
7. Redefining Urban Politics for the Twenty-First Century
Allan Cochrane
8. Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory: Regulation Theory and Institutional Arrangements
Mickey Lauria
9. Retooling the Machine: Economic Crisis, State Restructuring, and Urban Politics
Bob Jessop, Jamie Peck, and Adam Tickell
PART 3. THE GROWTH MACHINE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
10. Organizing for Local Economic Development: The Growth Coalition as a Cross-National Comparative Framework
Andrew Wood
11. Growth Coalitions in Britain's Waning Sunbelt: Some Reflections
Keith Bassett
12. The Politics of Influence: Democracy and the Growth Machine in Orange County, U.S.
Stephanie Pincetl
13. Employing the Growth Machine Heuristic in a Different Political and Economic Context: The Case of Israel
Andrew Kirby and Thabit Abu-Rass
14. Transcending Interurban Competition: Conceptual Issues and Policy Alternatives in the European Union
Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard
CONCLUSION
15. Growth Machine Links: Up, Down, and Across
Harvey Molotch
References
Biographical Notes
Index