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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"growth machine"”.
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The City as a Growth Machine: Reynosa, MX
… McAllen, TX, has experienced rapid population growth, increased commercial and manufacturing sectors, thus positioning itself on the global scale. However, development officials in McAllen also facilitate this growth by assisting Reynosa in the recruitment of maquiladoras, or export-processing …
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The City as a national growth machine : city-building and the role of urban development in South Korea's political and economic transitions
… to this question, the capital city's predominant growth becomes rather puzzling when considering that South Korea, in contrast to the Latin American cases, initially developed its major industrialization and spatial development policies to support regional development and decentralization instead …
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The "L" is for living : creating urban development linkages with affordable transit-oriented housing
… land-owning elites conceive of the city as a growth machine to increase their wealth and/or influence. The growth machine idea is often linked with the concept of the city as a place of pleasure. These two concepts invariably produce growth strategies-strategies that that do not reflect or …
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Urban Sustainability in Transformation: A Case Study of Seoul
… or reproduces existing power imbalance in the growth politics in cities. Given the current trend that the concept of sustainability has become embedded in our culture, little is known about the urban politics around urban sustainability plans and their effectiveness in promoting balanced …
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The Tholian Web: The Political/Institutional Context of Regional Cluster-Based Economic Development
… forces, civic culture, regime theory, the growth machine, and civic entrepreneurs) all provide important insights for the adoption of cluster-based policies. Other important factors that need to be considered are the importance of public administrators, performance metrics, state context, …
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In Harm's Way: How Philadelphia's Urban Renewal Practices Steered Marginal People to Marginal Land
… I am interested in extending Logan and Molotch's Growth Machine theory to consider how the political and economic elite guided the urban renewal process to place particular communities on particular landscapes, despite the presence of a flooding hazard. To understand this issue, I examined how …
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Boulevards of Growth : Assessing the planned boulevardizations in Helsinki in the context of city-regionalism and land-use conflicts between municipalities
… Interest conflicts inside regional growth machines are typical and the examination of these interest conflicts and their effects on the city-region and its growth dynamics is the corner stone of this thesis. The first objective was to examine how the planned boulevardizations can …
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Governmentality: the new urbanism and the creative class within Atlanta, Georgia
This study seeks to unearth how current urban growth machines mobilize governmentality as a political instrument. Specifically, this study examines two features of this mobilizing, the rhetoric of growth machines that speaks to what a space is and means, and the actual outcomes that creates a …