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ABSTRACT:This paper argues that economic restructuring is best analyzed as potentially a two‐way relationship between global forces and local actors. The research and concepts in the literature on growth machines, governing coalitions, and urban regimes are central to that two‐way relationship, but the focus on political coalitions must be broadened. Two changes are proposed: (1) the focus on coalitions must be accompanied by analysis of the mobility of local capital and the degree to which governments can influence that mobility and (2) analysis of coalitions must include investigating the ability of coalitions to implement the policies they en

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1991.tb00244.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

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ABSTRACT:The suburban transformation, in which American suburbs have experienced rapid growth and physical restructuring, has been explained on the basis of economic factors. This study employs regime analysis to assess the role of politics in the restructuring of a suburban community in metropolitan Detroit. It examines the complex interactions between economic and political elites in the process of suburban transformation.

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1991.tb00245.x

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年代:1991

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ABSTRACT:In January 1988, Chrysler Corporation announced it would close its Kenosha assembly plant. Community leaders and residents feared economic catastrophe, A year later, despite the social costs of the shutdown, many of the same leaders were proclaiming Kenosha a boomtown. This paper examines the uneven development in Kenosha and explores the ideological assumptions behind current initiatives as well as the social costs. Public policies of other communities facing similar problems are summarized. The authors suggest alternative strategies that might prove useful in the Kenosha case.

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1991.tb00246.x

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年代:1991

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ABSTRACT:Using Mexico City as a case study, this paper examines the unique problems and constraints that contribute to urban fiscal and political crisis in cities in developing countries. The recent international debt crisis and Mexico's history of dependent development accelerated the fiscal insolvency of Mexico City and limited local capacity to generate new or alternative revenue sources. Metropolitan authorities have limited maneuvering room to address this problem due to limited revenues and to growing urban austerity protests. The paper explores contradictory relationships between urban fiscal and political crisis and links them on the local urban level to the national and international context of dependent development. The paper concludes that urban political reform emerges in the constrained policy space where authorities can agree about Mexico City's future and legitimize their rule at the same time.

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1991.tb00247.x

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年代:1991

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ABSTRACT:This paper explores and analyzes the privatization of the public housing sector in the United Kingdom. In doing so, it argues that the sale of state‐owned dwellings has been one of the most significant achievements of the Thatcher administrations. While share issues in state enterprises, such as British Telecom or British Gas, have attracted widespread academic attention, it is the reshaping of the housing sector which has had major social, spatial, and fiscal impacts. Within the welfare state, public housing has, so far, borne the brunt of privatizatio

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1991.tb00248.x

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年代:1991

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ABSTRACT:Historic preservation is one way cities can stimulate the economies of lagging or distressed areas. Owners of commercial properties in historic districts enjoy federal and local tax incentives, grants, and loans, as well as protection of external facades in the district. If historic district designation is associated with price effects, there should be a significant price differential between commercial properties in designated and nondesignated areas. This paper reviews the extent to which designation makes a difference in revitalizing commercial investment in a minority commercial district in Atlanta, Georgia. Compared to a nondesignated commercial area, historic district designation appears to be effective in revitalizing commercial properties in terms of improving property values and, by inference, commercial activity.

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1991.tb00249.x

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年代:1991

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ABSTRACT:The authors monitored road traffic noise and surveyed public attitudes in Riyadh, the most rapidly developing urban area in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The specific aims of their study were to measure the levels of traffic noise along heavily traveled arterial roadways, to determine the attitudes of individuals exposed to traffic noise, and to determine the degree of association between noise and social attitudes. The feasibility of implementing a traffic noise control policy, based on the findings of the study, is discussed.

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1991.tb00250.x

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年代:1991

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ABSTRACT:This commentary reviews six of the 11 monographs in the Census Monograph Series, The Population of the United States in the 1980s. The series was written for the National Committee for Research on the 1980 Census. The several volumes were published in 1986, 1987, and 1988 by the Russell Sage Foundation.

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DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1991.tb00251.x

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年代:1991

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Book reviewed in this article:Unequal Partnerships: The Political Economy of Urban Redevelopment in Postwar America, edited by Gregory D. SquiresEconomy, Polity and Urban Public Expenditure, by Keith HoggartCommonplaces: Community Ideology and Identity in American Culture by David M. HummonPost‐Industrial Cities: Politics and Planning in New York, Paris, and London, by H. V. SavitchBuilding a Low‐Income Housing Policy, by Rachel G. BrattThe Changing Geography of the Service Sector, by D. G. Price and A. M. BlairUrban Politics and Administration: From Service Delivery to Economic Development by Elaine B. S

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1991.tb00252.x

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年代:1991

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Marsh, M, Suburban Lives.Klaassen, L. H., van den Berg, L., and van der Meer, J., EditorsMarshall, J. U.,The Structure of Urban Systems.Violich, F., in collaboration with Daughters, R.,Urban Planning for Latin America.Bourne, L. S., Sinclair, R., Ferrer, M., and D'Entremont, A.,The Changing Geography of Urban Systems.Wilson, W. H.,The City Beautiful Movement.Castells, M,The Informational City.Schuurman, F., and van Naerssen, T., Editors,Urban Social Movements in the Third World.

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1991.tb00253.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

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