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Managing Capital Resources for Central City Revitalization

Managing Capital Resources for Central City Revitalization

1st Edition

Edited By Fritz W. Wagner, Timothy E. Joder, Anthony J. Mumphrey, Jr.
January 16, 2019

First Published in 2000. This book and its companion volume, Human Capital Investment fo r Central City Revitalization, are the products of a two-year endeavor by the National Center for the Revitalization of Central Cities. The National Center is a consortium of academic institutions that ...

Neighborhoods, Family, and Political Behavior in Urban America Political Behavior & Orientations

Neighborhoods, Family, and Political Behavior in Urban America: Political Behavior & Orientations

1st Edition

By Yvette Alex-Assensoh
January 05, 2017

Undergirded by a multidisciplinary framework of political science, geography, and sociology, this book examines hte manner in which neighborhood economic resources and family structure shape individual political behavior among white and black citizens in urban America....

Minority Politics at the Millennium

Minority Politics at the Millennium

1st Edition

Edited By Richard A. Keiser, Katherine Underwood
November 18, 2016

First published in 2000. This edited collection reviews the developments in theoretical understanding of minority political incorporation. The chapters focus on minority groups throughout the US: Three Decades of Changing Minority Group Opportunities - Richard A. Keiser * Electoral Arrangements ...

Local Economic Development Policy The United States and Canada

Local Economic Development Policy: The United States and Canada

1st Edition

By Laura A. Reese, Urban Center Staff
August 26, 2016

First published in 1997. Part of the contemporary urban affairs series this volume looks at the local economic development policy of the United States and Canada. Laura Reese compares and analyzes local economic development efforts in Michigan and Ontario. She seeks to redress the paucity of ...

Wages, Race, Skills and Space Lessons from Employers in Detroit's Auto Industry

Wages, Race, Skills and Space: Lessons from Employers in Detroit's Auto Industry

1st Edition

By Susan Turner Meiklejohn
August 15, 2016

Susan Turner Meiklejohn’s Wages, Race, Skills and Space: Lessons from Employers in Detroit’s Auto Industry is an important study of wage and employment differences between blacks and whites in an urban economy. The book presents the results of a Detroit-based research endeavor which sought to ...

Human Capital Investment for Central City Revitalization

Human Capital Investment for Central City Revitalization

1st Edition

Edited By Fritz Wagner, Timothy Joder, Anthony Mumphrey Jr.
July 26, 2016

Viewing poverty as a condition that is fed and renewed on a daily basis by social and economic structures, this book focuses on the ways in which poor residents can be helped to improve their own situations, their living conditions, and the central city itself. Also includes four maps....

Downtowns Revitalizing the Centers of Small Urban Communities

Downtowns: Revitalizing the Centers of Small Urban Communities

1st Edition

By Michael A. Burayidi
June 23, 2015

This collection evaluates the various strategies that different cities have used when attempting to economically revitalize downtown areas....

The Collaborative City Opportunities and Struggles for Blacks and Latinos in U.S. Cities

The Collaborative City: Opportunities and Struggles for Blacks and Latinos in U.S. Cities

1st Edition

By John Betancur, John Betancur, Douglas Gills, Douglas Gills
July 17, 2014

This book explores Latino and Black and other relevant local experiences of collaboration and contention around policies and initiatives of advancement, in the context of recent global and national socioeconomic changes and changes in social policies in the United States....

Beyond Edge Cities

Beyond Edge Cities

1st Edition

By Richard D. Bingham, William M. Bowen, Yosra Amara
October 01, 1997

In his influential 1991 book Edge City, Joel Garreau argued that every American city is growing in the fashion of Los Angeles, with multiple urban cores. He named these cores edge cities because they perform all of the city functions, but rise in places that were farmlands or villages only decades ...

Reviving America's Forgotten Neighborhoods An Investigation of Inner City Revitalization Efforts

Reviving America's Forgotten Neighborhoods: An Investigation of Inner City Revitalization Efforts

1st Edition

By Elise M. Bright
January 22, 2003

This book examines both successful and unsuccessful efforts at revitalizing low-income neighborhoods and features case studies on a wide range of American cities....

The Art of Revitalization Improving Conditions in Distressed Inner-City Neighborhoods

The Art of Revitalization: Improving Conditions in Distressed Inner-City Neighborhoods

1st Edition

By Sean Zielenbach
April 01, 2000

This book discusses the revitalization of decayed inner-city neighborhoods. It explores the role of social capital in stabilizing and turning around distressed communities, and it highlights the roles that local actors can and do play in the revitalization process.The Art of Revitalization takes ...

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