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After the factory : reinventing America's industrial small cities /

The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U.S. have decayed sharply as the high-wage manufacturing jobs that provided the foundation for their pro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Connolly, James J., 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2010.
Colección:Comparative urban studies (Lanham, Md.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Can they do it? ; The capacity of small rust-belt cities to reinvent themselves in a global economy / James J. Connolly
  • Model cities, mill towns, and industrial peripheries : small industrial cities in twentieth-century America / S. Paul O'Hara
  • From satellite city to burb of the 'burgh : deindustrialization and community identity in Steubenville, Ohio / Allen Dieterich-Ward
  • Creating an "image center" : reimagining Omaha's downtown and riverfront, 1986-2003 / Janet R. Daly Bednarek
  • The gravity of capital : spatial and economic transformation in Muncie, Indiana, 1917-1940 / LaDale Winling
  • Curing the rust belt? : neoliberal health care, class, and race in Mansfield, Ohio / Alison D. Goebel
  • Do economic growth models explain midwest city growth differences? / Michael J. Hicks
  • Explaining household income patterns in rural midwestern counties : the importance of being urban / Thomas E. Lehman
  • Small, green, and good : the role of smaller industrial cities in a sustainable future / Catherine Tumber.