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Urban fiscal austerity, infrastructure provision and the struggle for regional transit in ‘Motor City’

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  • Stephen Hall
  • Andrew E. G. Jonas

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Studies suggest that urban fiscal crises trigger the institutional separation of strategic services from general purpose municipal functions. Traditional reformists have highlighted the economic benefits of regional approaches. Global austerity has created fiscal problems for central cities and suburbs alike, transforming the motives for regional solutions. This paper examines how the City of Detroit engineered a new regional arrangement with the surrounding suburbs to raise debt for the delivery of mass transit infrastructure. It represents a dual ‘spatial fix’ in the form of (i) a ‘state territorial fix’ providing fiscally stressed municipalities access to municipal bond markets and (ii) a ‘speculative spatial fix’ that benefits the Detroit growth coalition by linking regional mass transit to the prospect of land-use intensification.

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  • Stephen Hall & Andrew E. G. Jonas, 2014. "Urban fiscal austerity, infrastructure provision and the struggle for regional transit in ‘Motor City’," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 7(1), pages 189-206.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cjrecs:v:7:y:2014:i:1:p:189-206.
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    1. Paul Langley, 2018. "Frontier financialization: Urban infrastructure in the United Kingdom," Economic Anthropology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 5(2), pages 172-184, June.
    2. Daniel Kovarek & Gábor Dobos, 2023. "Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response: Austerity Measures Targeting the Local Level in Hungary," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 16(1), pages 105-117.
    3. Emily Rosenman & Samuel Walker, 2016. "Tearing down the city to save it? ‘Back-door regionalism’ and the demolition coalition in Cleveland, Ohio," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 48(2), pages 273-291, February.
    4. Dimitar Anguelov, 2023. "Financializing urban infrastructure? The speculative state-spaces of ‘public-public partnerships’ in Jakarta," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 55(2), pages 445-470, March.
    5. Andrew EG Jonas & Andrew R Goetz & Sylvia Brady, 2019. "The global infrastructure public-private partnership and the extra-territorial politics of collective provision: The case of regional rail transit in Denver, USA," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(7), pages 1426-1447, May.
    6. Joshua Akers, 2015. "Emerging market city," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 47(9), pages 1842-1858, September.

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