Abstract
The urban growth machine critically conceptualizes the process of urbanization in the post‐Fordist period. Drawing on the antagonistic relation between residents as users of place and place entrepreneurs and their collaborators as investors in the exchange value of place, the urban growth machine theorizes growth coalitions that are shaped for intensifying the exchange value of urban places. Utilizing a structuralist framework, it leaps beyond agentic urban ecology and structural Marxist theorizations of urban political economy by using the commodification of place and the struggle between its use value and exchange value to draw insight on contemporary urbanization. This theory has been criticized for an overemphasis on the volunteerist agency of the growth coalition, exaggeration of the role of property markets, economistic approach, narrow perception of scale, and failure to add explanatory power in temporal and spatial decontextualized use.
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