Vulnerable Communities : : Research, Policy, and Practice in Small Cities /

Vulnerable Communities : : Research, Policy, and Practice in Small Cities / / ed. by Emily J. Wornell, Dagney G. Faulk, James J. Connolly.

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Vulnerable Communities examines the struggles of smaller cities in the United States, those with populations between 20,000 and 200,000. Like many larger metropolitan centers, these places are confronting change within a globalized economic and cultural order. Many of them have lost their identities...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
MitwirkendeR:
Connolly, James J.,
Dangal, Vikash,
Dawicki, Colleen,
Erickson, Jennifer,
Fannin, J. Matthew,
Faulk, Dagney,
Goodnight, Greg,
Grady Holt, William,
Hicks, Michael J.,
Lebovits, Hannah,
Mallach, Alan,
Schaal, Pamela,
Taylor, Charles D.,
Way, Henry,
Wornell, Emily J.,
HerausgeberIn:
Connolly, James J.,
Faulk, Dagney G.,
Wornell, Emily J.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 7 b&w halftones, 10 maps, 15 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Vulnerable Communities: An Introduction
  • Part I INTERNAL DYNAMICS
  • 1. The Perils of “In-Betweenness”: Fragmented Growth in a Virginia Small City,
  • 2. Building Civic Infrastructure in Smaller Cities: Lessons from the Boston Fed’s Working Cities Challenge on Paving the Way for Economic Opportunity
  • 3. Diversity in the Dakotas: Lessons on Intercultural Policies
  • 4. Shaking Off the Rust in the American South: Deindustrialization, Abandonment, and Revitalization in Bessemer, Alabama
  • Part II PATTERNS AND STRATEGIES
  • 5. The Economic Fortunes of Small Industrial Cities and Towns: Manufacturing, Place Luck, and the Urban Transfer Payment Economy
  • 6. Where Do Small Cities Belong? The Case of the Micropolitan Area
  • 7. Conceptualizing Shrinking Inner-Ring Suburbs as Small Cities: Governance in Communities in Transition
  • 8. Local Government Responses to Property Tax Caps: An Analysis of Indiana Municipal Governments
  • 9. Asymmetric Local Employment Multipliers, Agglomeration, and the Disappearance of Footloose Jobs
  • Afterword, Greg Goodnight
  • Appendixes
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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