SHIFTING SECTORS The flurry of southern and suburban migration of businesses masqueraded plant closing during the 1970s. The tendency of mature profit cycle companies sectors
Category: As Two Ships Chapter Topics
Chapter 17: Second War Between the States: How Economic Development Became Ground Zero, Who’s to Blame?, Washington D.C.’s Regional Economic Development Advocacy Policy, Regional ED Competition (Sun Belt vs. Snow Belt)
THE SECOND WAR BETWEEN THE STATES: THE SHIPS COLLIDE In the midst of this fiscal turmoil, Business Week devoted a special issue entitled “The Second
Chapter 17: Won’t You Play in my Sandbox: the death of cities, Myrdal’s Vicious Circle, Refunction the Central City, the Central City Fiscal Crisis, Drop Dead Cities sayeth the Feds
WON’T YOU PLAY IN MY SANDBOX? The rise of community development coincided with the implosion of hegemonic Big Cities and the early onslaught of a
Chapter 17: Post-Great Society Community Development II: Acorn, National People’s Action (CRA), Alinsky CD, Settlement House to Neighborhood Services, Housing/Slum Removal to Neighborhood Revitalization, NHS, Community Land Trust, South Shore Bank, CDFI,
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE SEVENTIES Community development exploded during the seventies. This history makes a concerted effort to distinguish between wings/movements in that the purposes
Chapter 17: Post-Great Society Community Development I: Black Capitalism, Black Community ED, Community Development Corporations
POST Great Society COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Unlike mainstream business-focused economic development which had congealed around chambers and port authorities, postwar community development seemed more like a
Chapter 17: The seventies: Transition into a New Order
The seventies: the world turned upside down When Cornwallis marched out of 1781 Yorktown, his band allegedly played “The World Turned Upside Down.” During
Ron W. Coan 