Name Index
N. Y., 282-83 Black churches, 131-32
Blacks, 124, 126-32, 137-39, 140;
vs. immigrant experience, 124-26, employment of, 127-28, 129, and housing discrimination,
and racial integration, 143-44; in suburban city, 193-9 5.
See also Ghetto
"Blockbusting," through gentrifica-tion,
Block grants, 171-72, 173 Blue-collar workers. See Working
class
Bonds: municipal, in program, industrial,
"Boom towns," 89- 90 52, 53, 56-57, 62
Border metropolis, 2 73-75, 281 Boston, Mass., 122, 137, 142, 209,
267; "combat zone," 158-59; early suburbs, 183, 185
Boston Redevelopment Authority, 142 Boundaries, 44-45; neighborhood,
107
Bourgeoisie, in community organiza-tions, 140, 141-42. See also Middle class
British Town and County Planning Act, 148
Brooklyn, N.Y., 74 Brown, Jerry, 233-35 , 244 Brownsville, Tex., 273 Bucks County, Pa., n Burgess, W., 100, 145
375
376 SUBJECT INDEXSUBJECT INDEX Business: favorable climate 5
involvement of in local govern-ment, 62, 229-30; black-owned, 128-29, See also Corpora-tions
Business Week, 59-60 Busing, 94
California, 51 , 69, 182, 233-35, 242-43, 260; housing inflation in, 26, 278, 279-80; tax increment programs, 174-75; water resources, 224-25; campaign contributions in, 231-32; tax revolt in, 285; Capitalism,"unfettered" vs. "pragmatic state," place and, 2, 3;
68; corporate, 84-85 Capitalists, 21-22; corporate, and
the growth machine, 84-85 Carter administration, 170, 173 . Cartwright, Jan, 235-36
Castells, M., 12n, 38; on "urban social movements," 136, 216 Wood-lawn Organization, 139-40; com-munity organizations in South
and suburbs, 44- 45, 152-153, 181;
effect on factors of production, 58-59; fiscal health of, 86-88; exten-sion 152-53, 181; suburban, 153, 193-95; "satellite," 183; black suburban, 193-95; as module, 207-8; hierarchy of, 251; as examples of
dependency, 254-57; "primate," Climate, "good business," 57-62 Coastal Barrier Resources Act (1982), Coastal Protection Act (Calif.), 242-227n
43
"Collective consumption," 19 Commodification of place, 2, 23, 145 Community, 10, 19; loss of control
by, 33. See also Neighborhood(s)
as "front" organizations, 142-43;
and racial integration, 143-44; and"upgrading," 144- 46 Company towns, 185, 189n;
Consumer goods manufacturing. See Production
Co-optation of neighborhood organi-zations, 139-40
Corporate headquarters, 201, 258-67; move to suburbs, 259-60;
in small cities, 26 3-64. See also Headquarters cities Corporate takeovers, mergers,
264-66
Corporations: locational decisions, 21-22; corporate capitalists, 84 -85;
branch operations, 203, 2 04-5 , 207, 229-30; absentee ownership/
control of, 204-7; transnationaliza-tion of, 249-54; multinatransnationaliza-tional, 265 Corruption, political, 67, 157, 157n Cost-benefit analysis(-es): of growth
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SUBJECT INDEX 377
machine, 34, 85, 86-88; of dis-placement of the poor, in envi-ronmental impact reports, 163-64;
in employing suburbs, 190; of new
Daily round, 20, 103-4; of the poor, of affluent, 120; in the ghetto, of working women, 219
Dallas, Tex., 51-52, 173, 191, 224 Decker, Leslie, 54
Defense spending, 269, 270. See also Military
Delocalization, 202, 205 Denver, Colo., 56 Deregulation, 266 Determinism, "biotic," 5, 8 Detroit, Mich., 57, 209, 271-72 Development: government support of,
14, 34-37; regressive effects of, Division of labor, international, 248—
49, 284, 291 Elite(s), 26, corporate, 33-34;
growth, 34, 35-36, 50-52, 54, 63,
Enterprise zone program, 245—46 Entrepot cities, 273-75, 288 Entrepreneurs, 2, 37, 39; in
ecological theory, 5, 8; place, 13, 24, 29 -31; social typology of, structural, 30-32, 157; black, 128-29 32, 98; special, 23-29; as threats to neighborhood, and cation, defense of, 209-15 Executives: role of neighborhood for,
106; progrowth activities of local managers, 229-30 Export/import patterns, 249-50, 256 Expositions, as development tools,
author-378 SUBJECT INDEXSUBJECT INDEX or-ganizations in, 136-39; 140-41 Government, 14, 27, 147, 154,
179-80; local, 3, 14, 147, 229-30; "reg-ulation" by, 27-29, 154-66; sup-port of growth by, 34-37; local, and growth coalition, 62- 63, 154-66; federal, growth incentives in, of, 85—97; cost-benefit analysis of, 868 8; effect on employment, 88 -91; social problems and, 93-95; ef-fects on environment, 95-96;
offs of, 97-98; threats to, 154-66,
191-92; local resistance to, 209-28; aggregate, 226
Growth coalition, 36; organization of, 62-74; politicians' role in, 66-69;
media role in, 70-7 3; utilities' role in, 7374; auxiliary players in, 75 -85
Growth control, 159-66 Growth machine, 32-37, 57-62; city
as, 50-98; long-term conse-quences of, 34; historical view of, 52-57; cultural institutions and, 60, 61—62; disagreements within, 64— Headquarters cities, 139, 2012, 258
-67, 277, 282, 287, 289 Home rule, 36, 147, 153, 166; in
sub-urbs manipulating boundaries coun-tries, 147-50; low-income, 168-69;
subsidized, 169
Housing and Urban Development Act (1965), 169
Housing construction, and costs, 25 Housing costs, 26, 165, 278-80;
construction rate and, 25; inflation in, 26, 278; growth and, 92; and environmental regulations, 278-79 develop-ment of, 56, 84, 96; devalued proj-ects in, lack of zoning in, 157-58; growth control in, 161; tax base, 284-85
Hyde Park-Kenwood community (Chicago), 142
Identity, neighborhood as source of, 107-8
Immigrants, 110, 124-26, 127, 129, 151; "illegal," 46, 274- 75; as en-trepreneurs, ecological view, 6; of place, 49; ur-ban growth and, 93-95; in suburbs, Joint Economic Committee, 193 Koch, Ed, 244
Kucinich, Dennis, 232-33
Labor force: in "good business cli-mate," 61; in suburbia, 184—85; un-documented workers, 274; in growth settings, 282-84; "K-mart-ing" of, 283
Local Development Corporation, 143 Local government: powers of, 3, 14; Location theory, neo-Chicago, 101 Los Angeles, Calif., 176, 225, 230,
Market environment, U.S., 2-3 Markets, 1, 4, 13, 17, 32-33, 292; Microelectronics and Computer
Tech-nology Corporation (MCTC), 76,
380 SUBJECT INDEXSUBJECT INDEX con-straints on, 40 -4 1; job and income, 91-93; of low-income people, 137 National Institute for Advanced
Stud-ies, 102-3
National urban policy, 166-79, 198-99, 245 103-10; as source of identity, 107-8; as commodity, ghetto, 34; "upgrading," 144-46 Neoclassical economists, 1, 17, 24—
25, 33; migration theory of, 43 on foreign investment, 254-57
state UDC funds in, 171; as head-quarters city, 259
New York State Urban Development Corporation (UDC), 171 New York Times, 73
Nixon administration, 169, 171 Nuclear power: fiscal issues of, 87;
Midland, Mich., opposition to, 213-15 ma-chine, 81-82; black participation in, 132n; in sunbelt, 283 Palo Alto, Calif., 88
"Paper entrepreneurialism," 264 Parks, public,
Peripheral Canal Project (Calif.), 226 Petaluma, Calif., growth control in,
160
of regulatory programs, 154-66;
urban, federal role in, 166-79
Politics, 230-36; local, and growth coalition, 62-65, 68-69, 229-30;
"symbolic," 63-64, 68; campaign contributions, 67-68, 157, 230- 31;
244-47; defense spending, 270 Real estate, 27, 28; altering content
of, 24-25; "second-hand" nature of, 25; symbolic nature of, 107;
corporate investment in, 236—42
Reciprocity: in neighborhood, 104; in the ghetto, 132, 288 Redlining, 129-30; cultural, 205 Reformism, 151-53, 293-95; and
ur-ban renewal programs, in rev-enue sharing programs, 173-74 Regulation(s), 27-29; land-use, 32; of
new infrastructures, 208-9; envi-ronmental, 217, 218n, 221, 228;
and housing prices, 278-79 Rent(s), 23, 277-80; differential, 24, Resources, natural, fragility of,
223-28
Retailers, 20-21, 82-8 3, 239 Retirement center, 275-77, 286-87 Revenue sharing, 171, 172-74 San Diego, Calif., 55, 81, 273, 275 San Francisco, Calif., 55, 209, 231,
267
Santa Barbara, Calif., 88, 142, 191n, 229; growth control in,
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101-2; and preservation efforts, 122 Service industry, 250, 262-63, 282 Shopping malls, 83, 237-39;
re-gional, 238, 239n Silicon Valley, Calif., 188, 192 Site assemblage, Speculation, 26-27; structural, 157;
and housing prices, 279-80 Sports, professional, 79-81
Suburbanization, 37, 118-19, 197;75 subsidized, 121 Suburbia, 180-81, 287; Marxian
view of, 10; incorporated towns in,
class residential, 190-91, 192, 198;
exclusive residential, 191-92, 198;
black suburban city, 193-95 Sunbelt, 209, 223; development vs.
environmental conflicts in, elderly migration to, em-ployment problems in, 281 Support networks, informal, 104-5;
in the ghetto,
Tax base, 195-96, 284-85; effect of development on, 86-88 Tax benefits, 176, 177 Tax credits, investment, 246 Tax incentives, real estate, 280 Tax increment redevelopment (TIR)
program, 174-75 Tax reform, 284-85; under Reagan,
246
Tax revolt movement, 65, 285—86 Technocratic meritocracy, 152—53 Technology, homogenizing effect of,
202 Unemployment rates: growth surge
and, 89-91 ; in suburbs, 190-91 United Auto Workers, 82 U.S. Department of Housing and
Ur-ban Development (HUD), 169 Urban Development Action Grants
(UDAGs), 170-71
national, 166-79, 198-99, 245 Urban Question, The (Castells), 1 Use value(s), 1-2,166; special, 17-23; defense of, 99, 20, 35, 98, 99,
108-9, 134-39, 215-28; types of, 103-10; zoning and, 155; and fed-eral programs, 170, 173, 178;
and environmentalism, 215—23 Utilities, 57; costs of, 59; role of, in
growth machine, 73-74; limitations Water supply, 51 , 58, 73-74, 224-25;
and Southwest development, 69, 224; and growth control, 161 Watt, James, 228 Wealthy. See Affluent Welfare programs: labor costs and,
58; revenue sharing and, 173; pre-Depression, 204 Women: neighborhood use values
and, 106-7; in labor force, 218-19, 88-89; in suburbs, 180,192-93; and environmentalism, 220-23