This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Boschken, H. L. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                   What's this?

Urban Spatial form and Policy Outcomes in Public Agencies

San Jose State University

Bias or disproportional emphasis in an agency’s pattern of policy outcomes always raises questions of accountability and has been the subject of countless studies. For urban agencies, past research has been driven by causal theses having either a socioeconomic or a political perspective. However, a powerful thesis receiving little attention in policy making is the concept of urban spatial form. The author develops hypotheses about spatial form’s impact on skewing agency outcomes and tests them alongside conventional rival theses using regression analysis on 42 U.S. transit agencies. Results indicate that urban form is at least as important in explaining policy bias as socioeconomic and political considerations.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?