The literature about residential settlement patterns gives little or no attention to the supply side of the picture ofhousing access and neighborhood formation.However, outside this literature, the Logan and Molotch theory of the "urban growth machine" offers the best explanation of how...

Our research addresses ethnic entrepreneurs in Old Harbor, Kodiak Island, Alaska. In this remote outpost, the Alutiiq people have long had abundant social capital, but they did not enter commercial entrepreneurship. The bonding social capital of the Alutiiq did not generate entrepreneurship...