摘要: Urban growth machine is an influential thesis of urban politics that suggests the objective unites otherwise pluralistic interests in relation to a city. The situated within broader theory about commodification place, where place understood be socially and economically valued land. Its key premise coalitions actors organizations (i.e. machines), all sharing interest local its effects on land values, compete with machines elsewhere for scarce mobile capital investment, while simultaneously attempting gain tacit support publics such growth. Following introductory overview, this entry discusses two main parts. first part sets out concepts underlying thesis: use value, exchange value place; entrepreneurs; their allies; competing capital; promoting as public good. second identifies core issues debates (particularly those made by human geographers), including critiques of: property focus; agency difficulties international comparison; conceptualization dependency scale; relationship political projects feeling.
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