Business Elites and Urban Development
Business Elites and Urban Development

Author: Scott Cummings

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1988-04-07

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780887065781

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Written in a non-technical, narrative style, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone concerned with current trends in urban development. During the Reagan era, responsibility for urban planning and development was transferred from government to private business. This private sector hegemony over urban development differs markedly from the liberal policy initiatives of the 1960s and 1970s. Through a series of case studies, this book examines these shifting trends and shows that private sector efforts to revitalize America’s central cities have not been uniformly successful. The contributors, who are among America’s leading social scientists, utilize neo-Marxist urban theory to explain the conditions under which private initiative enhances or erodes downtown redevelopment.

Reinventing Cities
Reinventing Cities

Author: Norman Krumholz

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9781439901199

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Interviews with planners devoted to the needs of the poor and working class.

Life in West Hartford
Life in West Hartford

Author: Tracey M. Wilson

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780692182406

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Tells the story of the West Hartford, Connecticut community from first settlement to the present day. How does the identity of a community grow? Who are the people whose voices have not been heard? And how did the powerful use their voices? Who spoke and worked for equality, democracy, and justice as delineated in our Declaration of Independence? Local history gives us a window into how life in a democracy works. -- cover