Business elites and urban development : case studies and critical perspectives / edited by Scott Cummings. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cummings, Scott, 1944-

Series:

SUNY series on urban public policy.

SUNY series in urban public policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--United States--Growth--Case studies.

Cities and towns.

Businessmen--United States--Case studies.

Businessmen.

Urban policy--United States--Case studies.

Urban policy.

Urban renewal--United States--Case studies.

Urban renewal.

Businesspeople--United States--Case studies.

Businesspeople.

Cities and towns--Case studies--Growth--United States.

Businesspeople--Case studies--United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 395 p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Business elites & urban development.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1988.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Introduction. Private enterprise and public policy : business hegemony in the metropolis / Scott Cummings

Part 1. Business elites and the growth agenda. Strategies and constraints of growth elites / Harvey Molotch

The role of the performing arts in urban competition and growth / J. Allen Whitt

Public investment in private businesses : the professional sports mania / Mark S. Rosentraub

Public policy and private benefits : the case of industrial revenue bonds / Thomas S. Moore and Gregory D. Squires

Part 2. Business elites and local government. Urban populism, uneven development, and the space for reform / Todd Swanstrom

Municipal code enforcement and urban development : private decisions and public policy in an American city / Scott Cummings and Edmond Snider

Chicago's North Loop redevelopment project : a growth machine on hold / Larry Bennett [and others]

Part 3. The social costs of urban growth and decline. Tallying the social costs of urban growth under capitalism : the case of Houston / Joe R. Feagin

Downriver : deindustrialization in southwest Detroit / Richard Child Hill and Michael Indergaard

Disinvestment and economic decline in northeastern Pennsylvania : the failures of a local business elite's growth agenda / Thomas J. Keil

Part 4. Downtown prosperity and neighborhood poverty. Urban democracy and the power of corporate capital : struggles over downtown growth and neighborhood stagnation in Hartford, Connecticut / Kenneth J. Neubeck and Richard E. Ratcliff

Fiscal and developmental crises in black suburbs / John R. Logan

The limits to neighborhood power : progressive politics and local control in Santa Monica / David S. Daykin.

Notes:

Cover title: Business elites & urban development.

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

1-4384-0017-9

0-585-05412-6