The Growth Machine Stops? Urban Politics and the Making and Remaking of an Edge City

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 670-700

  Phelps, Nicholas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

growth machine; postsuburbia; settlement evolution; suburbia; urban regimes

Indexed keywords

EDGE CITY; POLITICAL CHANGE; POLITICAL THEORY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLITICS; URBANIZATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865183450     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: 15528332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087412440275     Document Type: Article

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