Work Of Cities

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clarke, Susan E.
Other Authors: Gaile, Gary L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Urban economics.
Community development, Urban.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
Developpement communautaire urbain > Études de cas.
Économie urbaine.
Community development, Urban > Case studies.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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