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The New Localism - How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism (Hardcover)
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The New Localism - How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R497
Discovery Miles 4 970
You Save R202 (29%)
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The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the
communities where most people live and work.In their new book, The
New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal
where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used
to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental
challenges. Power is shifting in the world: downward from national
governments and states to cities and metropolitan communities;
horizontally from the public sector to networks of public, private
and civic actors; and globally along circuits of capital, trade,
and innovation. This new locus of power-this new localism-is
emerging by necessity to solve the grand challenges characteristic
of modern societies: economic competitiveness, social inclusion and
opportunity; a renewed public life; the challenge of diversity; and
the imperative of environmental sustainability. Where rising
populism on the right and the left exploits the grievances of those
left behind in the global economy, new localism has developed as a
mechanism to address them head on. New localism is not a
replacement for the vital roles federal governments play; it is the
ideal complement to an effective federal government, and,
currently, an urgently needed remedy for national dysfunction. In
The New Localism, Katz and Nowak tell the stories of the cities
that are on the vanguard of problem solving. Pittsburgh is
catalyzing inclusive growth by inventing and deploying new
industries and technologies. Indianapolis is governing its city and
metropolis through a network of public, private and civic leaders.
Copenhagen is using publicly owned assets like their waterfront to
spur large scale redevelopment and finance infrastructure from land
sales. Out of these stories emerge new norms of growth, governance,
and finance and a path toward a more prosperous, sustainable, and
inclusive society. Katz and Nowak imagine a world in which urban
institutions finance the future through smart investments in
innovation, infrastructure and children and urban intermediaries
take solutions created in one city and adapt and tailor them to
other cities with speed and precision. As Katz and Nowak show us in
The New Localism, "Power now belongs to the problem solvers.
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