Andrew E. G. Jonas is Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Hull, United Kingdom and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Earth Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. David Wilson is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

"…a positive addition to the literature on urban politics and governance in the social sciences." — Urban Studies"…I would recommend it to anyone who feels that the study of urban politics should amount to more than simple empirical generalisation." — Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG"The book demonstrates the continued usefulness of growth machine theory in urban politics. But its most important contribution lies in the questions it raises that can extend the framework of the theory." — Perspectives on Political Science

• Tables and Figures Preface INTRODUCTION 1. The City as a Growth Machine: Critical Reflections Two Decades LaterAndrew E. G. Jonas and David Wilson PART 1. URBAN GROWTH: IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE 2. Ideology and the Growth CoalitionKevin R. Cox 3. Urban Imagineers: Boosterism and the Representation of CitiesJohn Rennie Short 4. Growth Machines and Propaganda Projects: A Review of Readings of the Role of Civic Boosterism in the Politics of Local Economic DevelopmentMark Boyle PART 2. NEW DIMENSIONS OF URBAN POLITICS 5. The Character and Consequences of Growth Regimes: An Assessment of Twenty Years of ResearchJohn R. Logan, Rachel Bridges Whaley, and Kyle Crowder 6. Place, Politics, and the Production of Urban Space: A Feminist Critique of the Growth Machine ThesisMelissa R. Gilbert 7. Redefining Urban Politics for the Twenty-First CenturyAllan Cochrane 8. Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory: Regulation Theory and Institutional ArrangementsMickey Lauria 9. Retooling the Machine: Economic Crisis, State Restructuring, and Urban PoliticsBob Jessop, Jamie Peck, and Adam Tickell PART 3. THE GROWTH MACHINE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE 10. Organizing for Local Economic Development: The Growth Coalition as a Cross-National Comparative FrameworkAndrew Wood 11. Growth Coalitions in Britain's Waning Sunbelt: Some ReflectionsKeith Bassett 12. The Politics of Influence: Democracy and the Growth Machine in Orange County, U.S.Stephanie Pincetl 13. Employing the Growth Machine Heuristic in a Different Political and Economic Context: The Case of IsraelAndrew Kirby and Thabit Abu-Rass 14. Transcending Interurban Competition: Conceptual Issues and Policy Alternatives in the European UnionHelga Leitner and Eric Sheppard CONCLUSION 15. Growth Machine Links: Up, Down, and AcrossHarvey Molotch References Biographical Notes Index

Andrew E. G. Jonas is Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Hull, United Kingdom and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Earth Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. David Wilson is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

"…a positive addition to the literature on urban politics and governance in the social sciences." — Urban Studies"…I would recommend it to anyone who feels that the study of urban politics should amount to more than simple empirical generalisation." — Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG"The book demonstrates the continued usefulness of growth machine theory in urban politics. But its most important contribution lies in the questions it raises that can extend the framework of the theory." — Perspectives on Political Science

• Tables and Figures Preface INTRODUCTION 1. The City as a Growth Machine: Critical Reflections Two Decades LaterAndrew E. G. Jonas and David Wilson PART 1. URBAN GROWTH: IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE 2. Ideology and the Growth CoalitionKevin R. Cox 3. Urban Imagineers: Boosterism and the Representation of CitiesJohn Rennie Short 4. Growth Machines and Propaganda Projects: A Review of Readings of the Role of Civic Boosterism in the Politics of Local Economic DevelopmentMark Boyle PART 2. NEW DIMENSIONS OF URBAN POLITICS 5. The Character and Consequences of Growth Regimes: An Assessment of Twenty Years of ResearchJohn R. Logan, Rachel Bridges Whaley, and Kyle Crowder 6. Place, Politics, and the Production of Urban Space: A Feminist Critique of the Growth Machine ThesisMelissa R. Gilbert 7. Redefining Urban Politics for the Twenty-First CenturyAllan Cochrane 8. Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory: Regulation Theory and Institutional ArrangementsMickey Lauria 9. Retooling the Machine: Economic Crisis, State Restructuring, and Urban PoliticsBob Jessop, Jamie Peck, and Adam Tickell PART 3. THE GROWTH MACHINE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE 10. Organizing for Local Economic Development: The Growth Coalition as a Cross-National Comparative FrameworkAndrew Wood 11. Growth Coalitions in Britain's Waning Sunbelt: Some ReflectionsKeith Bassett 12. The Politics of Influence: Democracy and the Growth Machine in Orange County, U.S.Stephanie Pincetl 13. Employing the Growth Machine Heuristic in a Different Political and Economic Context: The Case of IsraelAndrew Kirby and Thabit Abu-Rass 14. Transcending Interurban Competition: Conceptual Issues and Policy Alternatives in the European UnionHelga Leitner and Eric Sheppard CONCLUSION 15. Growth Machine Links: Up, Down, and AcrossHarvey Molotch References Biographical Notes Index