关键词: 城市更新, 再发展, 成长机器, 成长联盟

Abstract: It is worthy for having a comparison between urban renewal in the United States from the 1950s to 1960s and inner-city redevelopment in China since the late 1980s.It finds that both programs use government authority and subsidies to make large-scale private or quasi-private investment attractive in the name of ameliorating living conditions.Despite the similarities,America's urban renewal was an program in which the local government and downtown business interests cooperated to boost declining inner-cities that were competing with burgeoning suburbs.In contrast,China's redevelopment has been propelled by emerging local elites using decentralized state power to pursue fast growth in rising real estate markets.

Key words: urban renewal, redevelopment, growth machine, growth coalition