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The Path-Dependent City

dc.contributor.authorWoodlief, Anthonyen_US
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dc.date.issued1998en_US
dc.identifier.citationWoodlief, Anthony (1998). "The Path-Dependent City." Urban Affairs Review 33(3): 405-437. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/69129>en_US
dc.identifier.issn1078-0874en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/69129
dc.description.abstractUrban policy making approximates the components of a path-dependent model-random selection and self-reinforcement-which suggests that cities get locked into suboptimal policies. Thus, despite rigid rules of individual and collective behavior posited by many urban theorists, identical cities can evolve along drastically different paths. The author shows how simple time-series models can overlook path dependence and demonstrates the trends of a path-dependent series using budget data from Chicago and New York. New York exhibited policy lock-in in the decades following the Great Depression, but Chicago did not.en_US
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dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.titleThe Path-Dependent Cityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelUrban Planningen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michiganen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/69129/2/10.1177_107808749803300308.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/107808749803300308en_US
dc.identifier.sourceUrban Affairs Reviewen_US
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