The History, the Drivers of Economic Development, the Chapter One Model—and the Two Ships Privatism and Progressivism
Chapter II
As the Twig is Bent: Pre-Civil War Migration & Political Culture
Penn and Philadelphia, Winthrop and Massachusetts—the Migration of Political Cultures and How Culture Impacted Economic Development
CHAPTER III
Early Republic Economic Development
The Tools of the Trade; Early Republic Competitive Hierarchy, Transportation Infrastructure; Corporate Charters and “the gifts that keeps on giving”: Constitutional Gift and Loan Restrictions and Dillon’s Law
Chapter IV
Industrial Big City: Primeval Soup of Big City Economic Development
The Jurisdictional Economic Base and Profit Life Cycle, Agglomerations; Railroads to Subways; what the heck are Big Cities? The Development of the Industrial Era Big City, Industrial Era Big City Economic Development Policy System
Chapter V
Big City Economic Development
Beyond Boosterism, Chamber-Style Economic Development; Shifting, but not Shifty Business Elites, “First Wave” Chambers; Big City Policy System Capacity-Building, City Efficient, Structural Reformers, City Managers, and Selling Frozen Water
Chapter VI
Two Paths Diverge: Take One
Early twentieth century community development, from settlement house to neighborhood revitalization; social reform and socialist mayors; African-American economic and community development; Path to City Beautiful, City Beautiful and Boston’s Noble Experiment
Chapter VII
Pre-Depression South
Where is the South’s Industrial City? South as a Colony; Southern-fried Economic Development: Redeemers, the “Divided South” and City-Building; Southern Chamber-Style ED; Rise of Southern Textile Industry; the Early Rise of Big City Texas
Chapter VII
Western Economic Development into the Twenties
“You Ain’t in Philadelphia Now, Darling”, Western City-Building, Eastern Hegemony and Beyond Boosterism; Early Pacific Coast Cities, Earthquakes; Port Authorities; Los Angeles—the City ED Built; Federal Infrastructure; Fortress California and Pacific Coast Regional Hegemony
CHAPTER IX
The Twenties: Not So Calm Before the Storm
Chamber’s Golden Age; Onionization and a Pinch of Siloization; States and ED; the Oligopolistic Profit Cycle Grinds, Lehigh Valley, Second Phase of New England’s Textile War; Pre-Depression Community Development; Decentralization and the Twenties Suburb; Importance of “Growth” as ED’s Primary Goal
PART II
“RED SKY IN THE MORNING, SAILOR TAKE WARNING”
The Transition: 1930-1961
CHAPTER X
Big Cities: New Deal, War Years
Big Cities Cope with the Depression, New Deal and Big City ED, Le Corbusier dukes it out with Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Moses vs Catherine Bauer; Alinsky and the Second Ghetto; War Comes to Big Cities and Big Suburbs; what is Industrial Decentralization?
CHAPTER XI
Urban Renewal: The Scarlet Letter of Economic Development
Pre-Urban Renewal, Feds Get Involved; Phases of Urban Renewal; Urban Renewal As Anti-Suburbanization; Types of Urban Renewal; CD Urban Renewal Fights ED Urban Renewal; Last Phase of Urban Renewal: Urban Renewal
CHAPTER XII
The South: New Deal, World War II & the Fifties
BAWI. Second Reconstruction: Plantation Economy Gone with the Wind; War Production and Industrial Decentralization; Selling the South Starts the Shadow War, Civil Rights Movement and ED
CHAPTER XIII
The West: New Deal, War Years & Fifties
Roosevelt’s Western Revolution; Federal Government and the Jurisdictional Economic Base; Western Postwar Suburbanization: Simultaneous Suburbanization; Snapshots of Western Policy Systems: Los Angeles to Honolulu
CHAPTER XIV
Dry Rot to Decay: Big City Change in the ‘Wonder Bread’ Years
Truman-Eisenhower Federal Government: SBA to Interstate Highways; Gruen/Jacobs and the CBD; Mid-Century Big City Suburbs; Third Phase of the New England Textile War; Port Authorities and Onionization
CHAPTER XV
Hegemonic Big Cities and Rising Sunbelt
The Big Hinge; Big City Urban Renewal: Boston and Philadelphia; Postwar Sunbelt Urban Renewal: Atlanta, Norfolk, Oklahoma City and San Diego
Part III
Foundations of Contemporary ED/CD
Mainstream ED and New Style CD; Federal Government; the Two Ships; Competitive Hierarchies and Regional Change; State Governments; Shifting Jurisdictional Economic Base; Strategies, Tools and Programs; the Policy World
Chapter XVI
The Sixties
Kennedy’s Experimentation; Innovation in Community Development: Woodlawn and Gray Areas; War on Poverty and Great Society; HUD, CUED and EDA; Nixonian Thermidor: the Feds “Permanent Role” in sub-state ED/CD
Chapter XVII
The Seventies: The World Turned Upside Down
Postwar Community Development: Acorn to NHS to CDFI; Big Cities Implode: Will You Play in my Sandbox? Second War Between the States; Shifting Sectors: Auto Alley, Route 128 and Silicon Valley
Chapter XVIII
Through the Eighties: Reversing Decline
Carter Years and Reagan Devolution: the Feds Regroup; Explosion in Sub-Municipal EDOs; Messiah Mayors: Big Cities Stabilize; Reagan ERA Community Development: Nehemiah to Sandtown; Polycentric Post-Suburbia
Chapter XIX
Foundations of Contemporary Practice and Policy Emerge
Great Forces at Work; Deindustrialization; Not-Ready-For-Prime Time Entrepreneurial State: Massachusetts; Big Sort Political Culture and Policy System Change: Redefining Growth; New Strategies: Economic Gardening to Casino Gambling
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