How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing
Too many U.S. cities and towns have been focused on a model of economic development that relies on recruiting one big company (such as Amazon), a single industry (usually in technology), or pursuing other narrow or short-term fixes that are inequitable and unsustainable.
Examines the enduring forces - such as trade, migration, war and technology - that have enabled some cities to emerge from the pack into global leadership. Much more than an historical review, Clark's book looks to the future, examining the trends that are transforming cities around the world as well as the new challenges all global cities ......
Finding local solutions when the nation cannot, or will not. This book cites many positive examples of how cities across the US have taken the lead in dealing creatively with their local problems - even while the national government too often was gripped in partisan gridlock. The authors call for a twenty-first century localism, one attuned to the ......
How to Unlock Hidden Assets to Boost Growth and Prosperity
Even poor cities own large swathes of poorly utilized real estate, or they control underperforming utilities and other commercial assets. Most cities could more than double their investments with smarter use of these commercial assets. Managing the city's assets smartly through the authors' proposed Urban Wealth Funds will enable cities to ramp up ......
Examines the concept of regional resilience, explaining how resilience can be promoted - or impeded - by regional characteristics and public policies. The authors illuminate how the walls that now segment metropolitan regions across political jurisdictions and across institutions have to be bridged in order for regions to cultivate resilience.
Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs is an annual series that serves as a forum for cutting-edge, accessible research on urban policy.
Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs is an annual series that serves as a forum for cutting-edge, accessible research on urban policy.
Jamaica, the Caribbean and the World Sugar Industry
What is life like on a sugar plantation at the end of the twentieth century? What will happen if the sugar industry collapses? How do the poverty-stricken cane cutters of rural Jamaica fit into the global economy? And how does sugar make its way from the canefield to our kitchens? The Carribean's history is inseparable from sugar. In Jamaica ......
America's inner cities, particularly those in older industrial metropolitan areas, have declined sharply in both population and employment over the past two decades.