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Other UMI PRIVATE PLANNING FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: LOCAL BUSINESS COALITIONS IN COLUMBUS, OHIO: 1858-1986 Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of the Ohio State University By Andrew Mair, M.A. (Hons.), M.A. ***** The Ohio State University 1988 Dissertation Committee: Approved by L. A. Brown K. R Cox M. E. O’Kelly R W. Jackson K. R Cox, Advisor W. R Smith Department of Geography ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The staffs a t the Ohio Historical Society library and at the Columbus and Ohio Room of the Public Library of Columbus and Franklin County have been very helpful. Special thanks to Robert W. Adams, Adolphus Andrews, and Henry M. Barlow for having written their dissertations on the topics they did. Thanks also to Delmar Starkey for a lengthy interview, and to Dianne Hietter and Kevin Cox for editorial comments. Many of the ideas in chapter III were developed with Kevin. I have been extremely fortunate to study with him. I cannot imagine a better advisor. VITA March 30, 1958 ......................................... Born - Rugby, United Kingdom 1980 ............................................................... M.A. (Hons), S t Andrews University, S t Andrews, United Kingdom 1980-1982 .................................................... Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, Ohio State University 1982 ............................................................... M.A., Department of Geography, Ohio State University 1982 (Summer) ......................................... Graduate Research Associate, Department of Geography, Ohio State University 1982-1983 .................................................... Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of Geography, Ohio State University 1983-1984 .................................................... Graduate Research Associate, Department of Geography, Ohio State University 1984 ......................................................... Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of Geography, Ohio State University 1986 (Winter) ............................................ Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of Geography, Ohio State University 1986 (Spring) ............................................ Visiting Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa 1986-1987 ............................................... Graduate Research Associate, Department of Geography, Ohio State University iii PUBLICATIONS 1987 Review of: "The homes and homeless of post-war Britain" by Frederick Shaw, Professional Geographer 39:124-125. 1986 "The homeless and the post-industrial city” Political Geography Quarterly 5:351-368. 1986 "Thomas Kuhn and understanding geography" Progress in Human Geography 10:345-369. 1984 "Locating shelters for the homeless" Area 16:338-340. 1981 Review of: "The political economy of the welfare state" by Ian Gough, Antipode 13.3:44-45. FIELDS OF STUDY Urban political geography Local economic development Social science methodology TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.................................................................................................. ii VITA ........................................................................................................................... iii LIST OF TABLES ................................................................................................... ix LIST OF FIGURES ..................................................................................................... x CHAPTER PAGE I LOCAL CLASS FORMATION ............................................................... 1 1.1: The object of this study ................................................ 1 1.2: Class .................................................................................... 2 1.3: Local .................................................................................... 4 1.4: Formation ......................................................................... 7 1.5: Outline of dissertation ................................................ 8 II COMMUNITY POWER STRUCTURES AND LOCAL BUSINESS COALITIONS 10 2.1: Introduction ...................................................................... 10 2.2: Hunter's "Community Power Structure" ...... 13 2.3: The evolution of the community power structure literature 18 2.4: The community power structure literature critiqued as a whole 24 2.5: Local economic interests investigated ................ 27 2.6.1: Organizational aspects of class form ation ........... 33 2.7: Conclusions to chapter II: the importance of local capitalist class formation....................... .................. 36 III THE LOCAL DEPENDENCE OF FIRMS AND LOCAL BUSINESS COALITIONS: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS .............................. 43 3.1: Introduction ....................................................................... 43 3.2.1: Necessary preconditons: local dependence in a context of geographical instability ...................... 45 3.2.2: Territories of interest .................................................. 46 v 3.2.3: Immobilities and local dependence 51 3.2.4: Instabiities that threaten reproduction 57 3.2.5: What individual firms do about problems arising from local dependence 62 3.3.1: Collective strategies and local business coalitions 67 3.3.2: Participation in local business coalitions .................. 68 3.3.3: How coalition strategies are determined ... 74 3.3.4: The importance o f strategy ..................................... 80 3.4: Conclusions to chapter III ........................................... 83 IV INTRODUCTION TO THE CASE STUDY LOCALITY ...................... 86 V THE FORMATION OF INSTITUTIONALIZED LOCAL BUSINESS COALITIONS IN METROPOLITAN COLUMBUS .............................. 90 5.1: Introduction ......................................................................... 90 5.2.1: The Board of Trade, 1958-1897 92 5.2.2: The unsuccessful attempts to establish a Board of Trade in Columbus ................................ 93 5.2.3: A permanent Board of Trade ..................................... 100 5.2.4: Local dependence 101 5.2.5.1: Aims and strategies ...................................................... 103 5.2.5.2: Attracting manufacturers and other sources of value flow ...................................................... 103 5.2.5.3: Lobbying for infrastructural improvements .... 107 5.2.5.4: Reforming local government decision-making.... 108 5.2.5.5: Other activities .................................................................... 110 5.2.6: Levels of activism among locally dependent firms 111 5.2.7: Conclusions: the institutionalization of a local business coalition ......................................................... 113 5.3.1: The Metropolitan Committee: 1945-1967 115 5.3.2: Origins of the Metropolitan Committee ....................... 116 5.3.3: Membership ........................................................................... 117 5.3.4: The overall strategy: passage of bond issues .... 119 5.3.5: Tactics to secure