The Inner City: Urban Poverty and Economic Development in the Next Century

Michael Porter has argued that a sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city only if it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit, initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage-not through artificial inducements, charity, or government. Porter's ideas have prompted endorsement as well as criticism. More importantly, they have inspired a search for new solutions to inner city distress as well as a reassessment of current approaches. The Inner City defines a core debate in the United States over the future of a racially divided urban America. It is of inestimable importance to policy analysts, government officials, African American studies scholars, urban studies specialists, sociologists, and all those concerned with inner city revitalization.

Author: Thomas D. Boston
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08/29/2017
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781138536333