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Work of Cities. /
Are cities obsolete relics of an earlier era? In this pathbreaking book, Susan E. Clarke and Gary L. Gaile contend that contrary to this conventional wisdom, cities are growing in importance. Far from irrelevant, local governments are vital political arenas for the new work of cities--empowering the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1998.
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| Colección: | Globalization and community.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Transcending Scale: Nationalism, Globalism, Localism; 2. The Changing Work of Cities; 3. The Era of Entrepreneurial Cities; 4. Context and Policy Effectiveness; 5. Cities at Work: Cleveland and Jacksonville; 6. Different Paths: Syracuse and Tacoma; 7. The Fourth Wave: Global-Local Links and Human Capital; 8. Reinventing Citizenship; Appendix A. Spatial Statistics: Methodology for Explicitly Incorporating and Controlling Regional Effects; Appendix B. Local Economic Development Strategies Relying on Nonfederal Resources; Notes; Bibliography; Index.