There is a longstanding academic debate regarding whether local governments can meaningfully shape their long run fortunes through their own policymaking, or whether the autonomy of localities is swamped by larger macroeconomic forces. In the arena of development policy, specifically, some...

A survey of prior research testing the threat and contact hypotheses uncovers a wide, often conflicting, range of conclusions regarding the influence of contexts on attitudes. Through a reanalysis (verification and replication) of publicly available data we test the threat/contact hypotheses by...

What types of cities tend to aggressively pursue industrial or retail firms? What types of cities tend to favor housing over business development? What motivates cities to try to slow residential growth? Custodians of Place answers these and many other questions