Detroit: Three Pathways to Revitalization

ISBN-13: 9781138509153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 171 str.

Lewis D. Solomon

Opis

As America's most dysfunctional big city, Detroit faces urban decay, population losses, fractured neighborhoods with impoverished households, an uneducated, unskilled workforce, too few jobs, a shrinking tax base, budgetary shortfalls, and inadequate public schools

Spis treści

Introduction
I Some Background and Context on Detroit
1 Detroit's Challenges
2 Detroit's Substantial Assets
II Surmounting Detroit's Fiscal Crisis and Revamping Its Municipal Public Sector and Public School District
3 Struggling to Deal with Detroit's Fiscal Crisis
4 Rightsizing Detroit's Public Sector
5 Reviving the Detroit Public School District
III Economic Growth and Job Creation Fueled by the Private Sector
6 Economic Development through Corporate Relocations, Financial Repopulation Incentives, and Public-Private Partnerships
7 Economic Development through Entrepreneurship and the Creative Class
IV A Vision of and Obstacles to the Creation of an Alternative Political Economy Sector
8 The Potential Role of an Alternative Political Economy Sector in Detroit's Revival
9 Conclusion: Evaluating the Likelihood of Success
Index

O autorze

Lewis D. Solomon