Thursday, November 12th, 2015
Sociologist Harvey Molotch
“A city and, more generally, any locality, is conceived as the areal expression of the interests of some land-based elite.”
Harvey Molotch‘s seminal 1976 article “The City as Growth Machine”—which is just as fresh today—just happened to be published the same year of the UN Habitat Conference on Settlements that took place in Vancouver (and is the subject of my upcoming book).
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Tags: Aaron Swartz, Harvey Molotch, land elites, Stanley Park, The American Journal of Sociology, The City as Growth Machine, urbanism, Vancouver
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Monday, May 7th, 2012
What follows is the Preface of Don Gutstein’s 1975 book Vancouver Ltd., a thorough—and, as it turns out, prescient—analysis of the way in which Vancouver fell into the hands of real estate developers and realtors. I know Don from my postgraduate days at Simon Fraser University. He’s one of very few who has really taken a magnifiying glass to the way money moves in this city, and I think it’s time the book is reissued.
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Tags: Barbara Shapiro, City Hall, condos, developers, Don Gutstein, Donald Gutstein, Eric Metcalfe, Harvey Molotch, highrises, real estate development, SFU, The Wire, Vancouver
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