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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817882003321

Titolo

Vulnerable communities : research, policy, and practice in small cities / / edited by James J. Connolly, Dagney G. Faulk, and Emily J. Wornell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New York : , : Cornell University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-5017-6134-X

1-5017-6154-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Small cities - United States

Small cities - Economic aspects - United States

Small cities - Social aspects - United States

City planning - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The perils of in-betweenness: fragmented growth in a Virginia small city / Henry Way -- Building civic infrastructure in smaller cities: lessons from the Boston Fed's working cities challenge on paving the way for economic opportunity / Colleen Dawicki -- Diversity in the Dakotas: lessons on intercultural policies / Jennifer Erickson -- Shaking off the rust in the American South: deindustrialization, abandonment, and revitalization -- in Bessemer, Alabama / William Grady Holt -- The economic fortunes of small industrial cities and towns: manufacturing, place luck, and the urban transfer payment economy / Alan Mallach -- Where do small cities belong? the case of the micropolitan area / J. Matthew Fannin and Vikash Dangal -- Conceptualizing shrinking inner-ring suburbs as small cities: governance in communities in transition / Hannah Lebovits -- Local government responses to property tax caps: an analysis of Indiana municipal governments / Dagney Faulk, Charles Taylor, and Pamela Schaal -- Asymmetric local employment multipliers, agglomeration, and the disappearance of footloose jobs / -- Michael J. Hicks

Sommario/riassunto

"Scholars consider the present condition and future prospects of



smaller US cities and towns struggling in the face of broad economic and social change. They offer a mix of ground-level analyses and more general examinations of the successes and failures of recent redevelopment policies and offer concrete ideas for local leaders engaged in redevelopment work"--