You can manage bookmarks using lists, please log in to your user account for this.
Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Disarming the War of the Growth Machines: A Panel Study
Contributor:
Humphrey, Craig R.
imprint:
Eastern Sociological Society, 2001
Published in:Sociological Forum
Language:
English
ISSN:
1573-7861;
0884-8971
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>Intercommunity variation in growth machine activities, including the manipulation of the business climate and vertical integration with state economic development programs, net migration, and land use change are examined using a sample of 96 small urban places. A panel design and key informant methodology, 1970-90, permit cross-sectional and longitudinal observation. Using regression analysis with appropriate statistical controls, the research indicates that growth machines, particularly those in affluent communities, do intensify land uses. The business climate also negatively affects changes in business and industrial land uses as well as net migration. Some local efforts may not affect growth until the subsequent decade. The research suggests that growth machine activities are intensifying and may be exacerbating social inequality between places, especially affluent residential communities and declining working-class communities in the old industrial belt.</p>