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Renewing Cities (Hardcover)
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Renewing Cities (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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The cities of Lowell and New Bedford in Massachusetts, Jamestown in
New York, and McKeesport in Pennsylvania have all undergone years
of adversity and decline, their economic bases having been badly
damaged by structural changes in the national economy, particularly
in the manufacturing sector. In situations like these, can local
development efforts make a difference? Ross Gittell answers in the
affirmative. This interdisciplinary work focuses on comparative
case studies of the four cities. The book reveals how public,
private, and community-based local economic development initiatives
affect local economic performance: what works and what does not
work. City leaders and institutions can help reorganize and
"reshuffle" local resources, with results that include increased
investment, greater effort by local individuals and institutions,
more cooperation among different development interests, and
improvement in city economic positioning relative to the regional
economy and local development cycles. Gittell emphasizes the
possibility of shifting from a "zero-sum game" (attracting jobs
from elsewhere) toward the goal of converting underutilized local
resources to higher-value uses through alternative forms of
economic and political organization. Originally published in 1992.
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