… As this book will demonstrate, urban development in the United States is replete with
decisions that are inexplicable except in political terms. Yet cities operate under rather different …

… impact on the politics of urban economic development. The … political economy have
interacted during American history to precipitate three major eras of urban development politics; in …

… economic development game. Local governance, culture, and planning can combine with
economic fortune and national urban … analyzes the political economy of development in Detroit…

… programs for planning urban development, and its … urban development. The support systems
of these two countries are strongly influenced by well-developed center-periphery political …

… of sustainability; how sustainability projects map onto contemporary urban politics and
social justice movements; the spatial politics of conservation planning and resource use; and …

… out how urban economic restructuring has been conceptualized by urban political economists,
… restructuring is to undergird a common understanding of urban development that severely …

… in light of various critiques of urban political economy as being overdeterministic, ignoring …
taken as evidence of economic necessity. The traditional US urban situation is contrasted with …

… It must be stressed, however, that none of us has argued, ultimately, that the coalitions we
have identified as having formed around urban development strategies in British – or, indeed, …

… integrate economic and political logic into a comprehensive theory of urban political economy,
… Following Elkin, I propose a similar approach: that the focus of urban political economy be …

… Urban political economy has also focused on historical … Gordon argues that urban development
in the United States … approach in their effort to develop a "political economy of place." …