THE GLOBAL CONTEXT OF METROPOLITAN GROWTH - HOUSTON AND THE OIL INDUSTRY Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Houston's century-long sustained growth, unique centrality in Sunbelt expansion and in the world oil market, and commitment to an accentuated free enterprise philosophy make it an important urban case study in assessing the explanatory utility of mainstream and power-conflict theories of urban development.-from Author

published proceedings

  • AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY

altmetric score

  • 4

author list (cited authors)

  • FEAGIN, J. R.

citation count

  • 44

complete list of authors

  • FEAGIN, JR

publication date

  • May 1985