Architectures of Memory: When Growth Machines Embrace Preservationists

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 855-876
Author(s):  
Kevin Loughran ◽  
Gary Alan Fine ◽  
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Growth Machines

Urban Growth Machines—But at What Scale?

2019 ◽  
pp. 233-255
Author(s):  
Neil Brenner
Keyword(s):  
Urban Growth ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Growth Machine ◽  
Institutional Frameworks ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
Growth Machines ◽  
The City

Theories of the urban growth machine have long been a central analytical tool for contemporary research on urban governance. But in what sense are growth machines, in fact, “urban”? To what degree must “the city” serve as the spatial locus for growth machine strategies? To address such questions, this chapter critically evaluates the influential work of urban sociologists John Logan and Harvey Molotch on US growth machine dynamics. In contrast to an influential line of critique that reproaches these authors for their putative methodological localism, it is argued that their framework is, in fact, explicitly attuned to the role of interscalar politico-institutional relays in the construction of urban growth machines. These considerations lead to a dynamically multiscalar reading of the national institutional frameworks that have facilitated the formation of growth machines at the urban scale during the course of US territorial development. This analysis has broad methodological implications for the comparative-historical investigation of urban governance.

Growth machines and social movements in mature tourist destinations Costa del Sol-Málaga

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 1786-1803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Navarro-Jurado ◽  
Yolanda Romero-Padilla ◽  
José María Romero-Martínez ◽  
Eduardo Serrano-Muñoz ◽  
Sabina Habegger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Growth Machines

Iconic Urban Megaprojects in a Global Context

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría
Keyword(s):  
Urban Economy ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Regional Growth ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Policy Choice ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Financial Feasibility ◽  
Urban Elites ◽  
Growth Machines ◽  
Planning And Construction

With a focus on the exemplary Bilbao case, this chapter shows how iconic architecture plays a fundamental role in the deployment of contemporary globalized urbanization and the increased desire of urban elites to surrender to the promise, and discontents, of iconic urban megaprojects (IUMPS). The chapter contends that the key to understanding the intensification and spreading of the belief by many urban elites worldwide that iconic architecture alone can revitalize an urban economy is to be found not in the financial feasibility and economic impacts of IUMPs, but rather in the force of iconic architecture to transform a city’s image. This explains why the planning and construction of IUMPs has grown into a standard policy choice by urban and regional elites in globalizing cities, and why politicians, business leaders, and others in local and regional growth machines fulfill their personal and professional ambitions by investing in and promoting IUMPs.

Cabal City

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-182
Author(s):  
Patrick Heller ◽  
Partha Mukhopadhyay ◽  
Michael Walton
Keyword(s):  
Investment Policies ◽  
Growth Machines ◽  
Good For ◽  
The City ◽  
Indian Cities

This chapter explores the interaction of politics and business through the lens of the city. The power of business to influence politics in India would suggest that Indian cities are, in the classic sense of the term, growth machines. Yet the chapter argues that fundamental problems of governance in India’s megacities have precluded the possibility of business coalitions exerting cohesive influence over investment policies in cities. The result has been the predominance of what may be called cabals that are expert at extracting rents from the city, but in the end fail to promote development. High levels of growth have not been accompanied by commensurate expansion of the cities’ infrastructure and overall coordination capacities. In the end, what is good for business and politicians has been good for neither dynamic capitalism nor inclusion.

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