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SUNY Series in Urban Public Policy Richard Rich and Mark Schneider, Editors
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Business Elites and Urban Development:
Case Studies and Critical Perspectives
Edited by Scott Cummings
State University of New York Press
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1988 State University of New York
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Business elites and urban development.
(SUNY series on urban public policy) Includes index. 1. Cities and townsUnited StatesGrowthCase studies. 2. BusinessmenUnited StatesCase studies. 3. Urban policyUnited StatesCase studies. 4. Urban renewalUnited StatesCase studies. I. Cummings, Scott, 1944-II. Series. HT371.B79 1987307.1'4'097387-6456 ISBN 0-88706-577-5 ISBN 0-88706-578-3 (pbk.)
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CONTENTS
Contributors
vii
Introduction
1. Private Enterprise and Public Policy: Business Hegemony in the Metropolis
SCOTT CUMMINGS
3
Part One: Business Elites and the Growth Agenda
2. Strategies and Constraints of Growth Elites
HARVEY MOLOTCH
25
3. The Role of the Performing Arts in Urban Competition and Growth
J. ALLEN WHITT
49
4. Public Investment in Private Businesses: The Professional Sports Mania
MARK S. ROSENTRAUB
71
5. Public Policy and Private Benefits: The Case of Industrial Revenue Bonds
THOMAS S. MOORE and GREGORY D. SQUIRES
97
Part Two: Business Elites and Local Government
6. Urban Populism, Uneven Development, and the Space for Reform
TODD SWANSTROM
121
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7. Municipal Code Enforcement and Urban Development: Private Decisions and Public Policy in an American City
SCOTT CUMMINGS and EDMOND SNIDER
153
8. Chicago's North Loop Redevelopment Project: A Growth Machine on Hold
LARRY BENNETT, KATHLEEN MCCOURT, PHILIP W. NYDEN, and GREGORY D. SQUIRES
183
Part Three: The Social Costs of Urban Growth and Decline
9. Tallying the Social Costs of Urban Growth Under Capitalism: The Case of Houston
JOE R. FEAGIN
205
10. Downriver: Deindustrialization in Southwest Detroit
RICHARD CHILD HILL and MICHAEL INDERGAARD
235
11. Disinvestment and Economic Decline in Northeastern Pennsylvania: The Failures of a Local Business Elite's Growth Agenda
THOMAS J. KEIL
269
Part Four: Downtown Prosperity and Neighborhood Poverty
12. 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
299
13. Fiscal and Developmental Crises in Black Suburbs
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