In From the Outside In, Carolyn T. Adams addresses the role of
suburban elites in setting development agendas for urban
municipalities and their larger metropolitan regions. She shows how
major nongovernmental, nonmarket institutions are taking
responsibility for reshaping Philadelphia, led by suburban and
state elites who sit on boards and recruit like-minded suburban
colleagues to join them. In Philadelphia and other American cities,
Third Sector organizations have built and expanded hospitals,
universities, research centers, performing arts venues, museums,
parks, and waterfronts, creating whole new districts that are
expanding outward from the city's historic downtown.
The author draws on three decades of scholarship on Philadelphia
and her personal experience in the city s nonprofit world to argue
that suburban elites have recognized the importance of the central
city to their own future and have intervened to redevelop central
city land and institutions. Suburban interests and state allies
have channeled critical investments in downtown development and K
12 education. Adams contrasts those suburban priorities with
transportation infrastructure and neighborhood redevelopment, two
policy domains in which suburban elites display less strategic
engagement. From the Outside In is a rich examination of the
promise and difficulty of governance that is increasingly distinct
from elected government and thus divorced from the usual means of
democratic control within an urban municipality."
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