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After the Factory - Reinventing America's Industrial Small Cities (Hardcover)
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After the Factory - Reinventing America's Industrial Small Cities (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Urban Studies
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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 prosperity disappeared. A few
larger cities had the resources to adjust, but most smaller places
that relied on factory work have struggled to do so. Unless and
until they find new economic roles for themselves, the small cities
will continue to decline. Reinventing these smaller cities is a
tall order. A few might still function as nodes of industrial
production. But landing a foreign-owned auto manufacturer or a
green energy plant hardly solves every problem. The new jobs will
not be unionized and thus will not pay nearly as much as the
positions lost. The competition among localities for high-tech and
knowledge economy firms is intense. Decaying towns with poor
schools and few amenities are hardly in a good position to attract
the "creative-class" workers they need. Getting to the point where
they can lure such companies will require extensive retooling, not
just economically but in terms of their built environment, cultural
character, political economy, and demographic mix. Such changes
often run counter to the historical currents that defined these
places as factory towns. After the Factory examines the fate of
industrial small cities from a variety of angles. It includes
essays from a variety of disciplines that consider the sources and
character of economic growth in small cities. They delve into the
history of industrial small cities, explore the strategies that
some have adopted, and propose new tacks for these communities as
they struggle to move forward in the twenty-first century.
Together, they constitute a unique look at an important and
understudied dimension of urban studies and globalization.
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