GO 331 Fall 2006 Reader Part III
Revitalizing the Inner City
Cleveland, Newark and Baltimore (l-r)
November 7 Election Day/The Urban Dilemma and Implications
· Blair/Reese. Chapter 3. "City Jobs and Residents on a Collision Course: The Urban Underclass Dilemma" by John D. Kasarda.
KR Ihlanfeldt, The Importance of the Central City to the Regional and National Economy
· David Imbroscio, Fighting Poverty with Mobility, A Normative Policy Analysis
November 9 Place Based Strategies – Enterprise Zones in Practice and Theory
- Ladd, H. (1994). "Spatially-Targeted Economic Development Strategies: Do They Work?" Cityscape 3: 193-218.
- Gyourko, Joseph E., "Place-Based Aid Versus People-Based Aid and the Role of an Urban Audit in a New Urban Strategy"
- Turner and Cassell, Who Benefits When Enterprise Zones Are Zoned-Out?
November 14 Is capitalism the answer?
- Blair/Reese. Chapter 4. "New Strategies for Inner-City Economic Development" by Michael Porter.
- ICIC, “Opportunity Newark: Jobs and Community Development for the 21st Century” Exec. Summary
- Response: Michael Porter's conservative urban agenda will not revitalize America's inner cities: what will? T. Bates
November 16 Entertaining for Development
- Mark S. Rosentraub, The Local Context of a Sports Strategy for Economic Development
- Donald Norris, If We Build It, They Will Come, Tourism Based Economic Development in Baltimore, p. 125-67
- See on-line tour of Baltimore at Rachel Silberman's website
November 21 Growth Machine
- Peter Eisinger, The Politics of Bread and Circuses, Urban Affairs Quarterly
- Judd & Simpson, Reconstructing the Local State: The Role of External Constituencies in Building Urban Tourism
November 28 The Creative Class in Theory
- R.Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class: Why cities without gays and rock bands are losing …
- Richard Florida and Gary Gates, Technology and Tolerance: Diversity and High Tech Growth
- Steven Malanga, The Curse of the Creative Class
- Kotkin and Siegel, Too Much Froth: The latte quotient is a bad strategy for building middle-class cities.
- Florida, “Revenge of the Squelchers,” The New American City,
- Richard Florida, Where the Brains Are, Atlantic Monthly
November 30 Talent Magnet Project: Attracting and Retaining Creative Workers
- Can the creative class save our cities?
- Cultural Development in Creative Communities.
- Talent Magnet Project Readings --choose a city
December 5 Politics of Economic Development Policy
- Dewar, Why Do State and Local Economic Development Programs Cause So Little Economic Development
- Turner, Fleming, and Kaufman, The Political Economy of Trophy Industrial Recruitment Projects