The Politics of Urban and Regional Development and the American Exception
By Kevin R. Cox.
Description
Although all advanced industrial societies have urban and regional development policies, such policy in the United States historically has taken on a very distinct form. Compared with the more top-down, centrally orchestrated approaches of Western European countries, US cities and, to a lesser degree, states, take the lead, spurred on by developers and those with interest in rent. This bottom-up policy creates conflict as one city battles with another for new investments and asreal estate developers fight over the spoils, resulting in highly contentious politics.In The Politics of Urban and...
ISBN(s)
0815634390, 9780815634393
