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U.S. URBAN POLICY: THE POSTWAR STATE AND CAPITALIST REGULATION
Author(s) -
FLORIDA RICHARD,
JONAS ANDREW
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8330.1991.tb00419.x
Subject(s) - realm , fordism , state (computer science) , intervention (counseling) , urban policy , political economy , state policy , political science , formative assessment , economics , economic system , policy analysis , urban planning , public administration , sociology , economy , law , engineering , algorithm , computer science , psychology , pedagogy , civil engineering , psychiatry
This paper provides an historically grounded theory of U.S. urban policy which is informed by regulationist theory and recent contributions to the theory of the State. It is shown how the content and form of urban policy in the New Deal, was shaped by the rise of mass‐production Fordism and informed by the particular struggles that emerged in the United States during the formative period of the 1930s and 1940s. These struggles produced a particular State policy response, setting in place a limited and constrained mode of State intervention in the economy. In the realm of urban policy, this narrow form of State intervention set limits on further rounds of State policy, leaving the U.S. State unable to respond in an effective way to the mounting economic crises of the 1970s and the 1980s, contributing to the so‐called “failure” of urban policy.