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Policy Communities and Infrastructure of Urban Tourism

University of Missouri–St. Louis

In the past 35 years, St. Louis, Missouri, has built all of the components of a complete infrastructure of urban tourism: three sports facilities, a convention center and its renovation, an urban entertainment districts and two downtown malls. This sequence of large projects was undertaken even though St. Louis has an extremely fragmented government, and despite the gradual withdrawal of the business elite from the city’s affairs. In this article, it is suggested that the city was able to undertake a significant agenda of construction because of the presence of policy communities that linked policy entrepreneurs within the city to external groups. If St. Louis can be taken as a typical case, in many cities a constellation of policy communities may be appropriating decision making and fiscal authority from the democratic institutions of city government.

Key Words: policy communities • tourism • infrastructure • urban politics • institutions

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