This study covers the topic of revitalizing inner city neighbourhoods, which has been an elusive goal for city planners and policy makers. Bright's book covers both successful and unsuccessful efforts at revitalizing low-income neighbourhoods and features case studies on a range of American cities.

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book describes findings of a survey-based qualitative research study conducted among Detroit employers in the auto industry to evaluate explanations for why blacks are no longer catching up with whites in terms of income and employment.

Human Capital Investment for Central City Revitalization represents a departure from previous studies of urban revitalization which have concentrated on business-oriented discussions and strategies. This book focuses instead on ways in which the poor can be helped to improve their own situations and the central city itself. Rather than considering poverty to be a never-ending cycle, the authors discuss poverty as a condition that is fed and renewed on a daily basis by social and economic structures. Human Capital Investment is presented as a way to alter those structures.

This book publishes results of a two year research project to analyze critical problems facing America's central cities, evaluate strategies to address those problems and recommend policy alternatives.

This collection evaluates the various strategies that different cities have used when attempting to economically revitalize downtown areas.

This edited collection examines joint efforts by Latinos and African-Americans to confront problems faced by populations of both groups in urban settings, in particular, socioeconomic disadvantage and concentration in inner citites. The essays address two major issues: experiences and bases for collaboration and contention between the two groups; and the impact of urban policies and initiatives of recent decades on Blacks and Lations in central cities.

This book discusses the revitalization of decayed inner-city neighborhoods. It explores the role of social capital in stabilizing and turning around distressed communities, and it highlights the roles that local actors can and do play in the revitalization process.
The Art of Revitalization takes two Chicago neighborhoods, Englewood and North Lawndale, as case studies. Zielenbach discusses them in the context of racial change and urban decay in Chicago since World War II. The account of the changing neighborhoods is fascinating and clear, and the strength of the author's portrayal...

This book discusses the revitalization of decayed inner-city neighborhoods. It explores the role of social capital in stabilizing and turning around distressed communities, and it highlights the roles that local actors can and do play in the revitalization process.
The Art of Revitalization takes two Chicago neighborhoods, Englewood and North Lawndale, as case studies. Zielenbach discusses them in the context of racial change and urban decay in Chicago since World War II. The account of the changing neighborhoods is fascinating and clear, and the strength of the author's portrayal...

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.