The Path-Dependent City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6403862 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony Woodlief (University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 405-437 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/107808749803300308 |
| OpenAlex | W1968559389 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 32 |
Urban 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
Economics · Epistemology · Mathematical economics · Microeconomics · Path (computing · Path dependence · Path dependent · Selection (genetic algorithm · Series (stratigraphy · Simple (philosophy · Sociology · Computer Science · Housing Market and Economics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis · Artificial Intelligence
Taking path dependence seriously
Trans-Regional railway corridor implications on urbanization
Understanding Australia’s Antagonistic Politics of Transport
Path dependency in aesthetic control management within Turkish planning history
Tracking plan implementation using elected officials’ social media communications and votes
Institutional, technical and discursive path dependence in transport planning in Pakistan
Incentives and Disincentives to City-Regional Cooperation in the Berlin-Brandenburg Conurbation
There’s no time like the present
A Quasi-Market Framework for Development Competition
The effect of politics on the formation of urban aesthetics, the case of Iran
Neighborhood planning
How Does Urban Public Transport Change Cities? Correlations between Past and Present Transport and Urban Planning Policies
Re-Placing the Nation
Unforeseen consequences and pathological self‐reinforcement
Organizational Learning
Applied time series analysis for the social sciences
Mayors and Money
Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy
City and Regime in the American Republic
City Limits
The Competitive City
Public Entrepreneurs
Standardization, Compatibility, and Innovation
The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
A behavioral theory of the firm
Constructing social theories
Models of man, social and rational
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Urban Regimes and the Capacity to Govern
America's Ailing Cities
The Politics of Urban Fiscal Policy
Silicon Valley’ locational clusters
Disintegration and Political Action
Self-generating growth in public programs
The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur
Technology Adoption in the Presence of Network Externalities
"The Science of "Muddling Through
Approaches to the State
State Capacity and Economic Intervention in the Early New Deal
Who Benefits from State and Local Economic Development Policies
The New Institutionalism
Influences on Executive and Congressional Budgetary Priorities, 1955-1981
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2024 (27) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |