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- Title
Modern industrial policy and zoning: Chicago, 1910–1930.
- Authors
LEWIS, ROBERT
- Abstract
Industrial policy has long been considered a federal responsibility. Indeed, most scholars date modern local economic development programmes as starting in the 1960s. Before that, in this view, industrial policy was ad hoc, unco-ordinated and fragmented. In this article, I argue that the origins of modern industrial policy initiated by the local state slowly emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century in Chicago. Using an assortment of sources, I show that a new type of industrial policy was forged in the conflict over the 1923 zoning ordinance. The city's real-estate, financial and political elites were able to mobilize information, science, funding, individuals and arguments to convince industrialists that zoning was to their advantage. In the process, the city's industrial interests were able to frame the new zoning ordinance to their ends.
- Subjects
CHICAGO (Ill.); ILLINOIS; UNITED States; ZONING; INDUSTRIAL policy; URBAN planning; HISTORY of Chicago (Ill.); CHICAGO (Ill.) politics &; government, to 1950; MUNICIPAL ordinances; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Urban History, 2013, Vol 40, Issue 1, p92
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S096392681200065X