Social science
Directions: Answer each question below; they are worth 2 points each (6 points total). Each answer should be about 5-6 sentences long (one paragraph). To earn full credit, each answer must draw on relevant information presented in the reading. Put everything into your own words – do not quote the text.
Logan and Molotch: “The City as Growth Machine”
1) Explain the distinction between use-value and exchange-value; how are these two values are at odds within the commodity of “place”?
2) What is the growth machine and who are typically its key actors? Use one of the historical examples Logan and Molotch describe in your response.
4) Whose values, communities and concerns are marginalized by the growth ideology?