QUO VADIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT? Community development by the 1920s housed a goodly number of individuals, reformers and Policy World theoreticians who were concerned with “people”
Category: As Two Ships Chapter Topics
Chapter 9: Broken Cluster: Second Phase of New England’s Textile Industry Decline
Broken Cluster: Second Phase of Textile Industry Decline And now the second episode in our textile sector soap opera. When an agglomeration starts unraveling, economic
Chapter 9: the Oligopolistic Profit Cycle Grinds On: the First Auto Alley and Agglomeration, and Wilkes Barre and Decline of Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Coal Cluster
THE OLIGOPOLISTIC PROFIT CYCLE GRINDS ON By the 1920s the American industrial economy had been operating for over a hundred years: time to check in
Chapter 9: the EDO/CDOs of the 1920’s, the American Industrial Development Council, the States and 20th Century Substate ED, the State Business Climate
EDOS APPEAR AND MATURE: ONIONIZATION, SILOIZATION DOES ALSO Glancing over the 1920s’ EDO landscape, much has changed since the 1880s. Chambers are still the dominant
Chapter 9: Back to the Northern Big Cities and the Last Chapter in Part 1: the 1920’s
The twenties: not so calm before the storm INTRODUCTION Looking back over Part I, the chapters have been about growth—of industrial Big Cities, southern cities
Chapter 8: the Federal Government as Western City-Builder: Infrastructure, San Diego’s Fortress Strategy, Fortress Strategy and the Pacific Urban Hierarchy
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Western Infrastructure Why mince words. Most of the West was literally owned and managed by federal bureaucracies, i.e. the federal government. Whatever
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