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After the factory : reinventing America's industrial small cities / edited by James J. Connolly

Published
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : illustrations, maps
Additional Creators
Connolly, James J., 1962-
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Can they do it? ; The capacity of small rust-belt cities to reinvent themselves in a global economy / James J. Connolly -- Model cities, mill towns, and industrial peripheries : small industrial cities in twentieth-century America / S. Paul O'Hara -- From satellite city to burb of the 'burgh : deindustrialization and community identity in Steubenville, Ohio / Allen Dieterich-Ward -- Creating an "image center" : reimagining Omaha's downtown and riverfront, 1986-2003 / Janet R. Daly Bednarek -- The gravity of capital : spatial and economic transformation in Muncie, Indiana, 1917-1940 / LaDale Winling -- Curing the rust belt? : neoliberal health care, class, and race in Mansfield, Ohio / Alison D. Goebel -- Do economic growth models explain midwest city growth differences? / Michael J. Hicks -- Explaining household income patterns in rural midwestern counties : the importance of being urban / Thomas E. Lehman -- Small, green, and good : the role of smaller industrial cities in a sustainable future / Catherine Tumber.
Summary
The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U.S. have decayed sharply as the high-wage manufacturing jobs that provided the foundation for their prosperity disappeared. A few larger cities had the resources to adjust, but most smaller places that relied on factory work have struggled to do so. Unless and until they find new economic roles for themselves, the small cities will continue to decline. Reinventing these smaller cities is a tall order.
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ISBN
9780739148259 (electronic bk.)
0739148257 (electronic bk.)
1282921932
9781282921931
9786612921933
6612921935
9780739148235
0739148230
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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