Varieties of Growth Strategy: Some Comments on Logan

vented the continued expansion of employment which, it can be argued, provides a net fiscal benefit o these communities, helping to support excellent public services for those who can afford to live there. Expansion of employment in turn is the condition for population growth in other cities in the region. c) Notably missing among cases of strong antigrowth activity are the working-class uburbs in which the bulk of population growth as occurred. Yet these are the communities in which growth problems are most severethey are unable to attract the kinds of development favored by exclusive suburbs or employment centers, and so suffer the tax costs and public service burdens of extensive single-family subdivision development. We can only guess at the reasons for lack of organized opposition to the growth machine in such places: the absence of voluntary associations, the rapid turnover of population, the large proportion of renters, racial and ethnic cleavages, and the ambiguity and variability of people's perceptions of the causes of local problems. It is not clear that persons in these cities share the interests of or are benefited by the countercoalition i other areas. The variety of contexts in which growth may be treated as the central political issue implies that it is misleading to analyze the growth machine and countercoalition i gross terms. We are certainly far from being able to extrapolate the national effects of a victory by the countercoalition. The challenge is to elaborate a comparative theory of the urban political economy, to reflect and to order this variety of American communities.