"Comeback Cities shows how innovative, pragmatic tactics for ameliorating the nation's urban ills have produced results beyond anyone's expectations, reawakening America's toughest neighborhoods. In the past, big government and business working separately were unable to solve the inner city crisis. Rather, a blend of public-private partnerships, grassroots nonprofit organizations, and a willingness to experiment characterize what is best among the new approaches to urban problem-solving. Pragmatism, not dogma, has produced the charter school movement and the police's new focus on "quality-of-life" issues. The new breed of big city mayors has welcomed business back into the city, stressed performance and results at city agencies, downplayed divisive racial politics, and cracked down on symptoms of social disorder. As a consequence, America's inner cities are becoming vital communities once again."--Jacket.
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Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival
September 5, 2000, Westview Pr (Trd), Westview Press
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0813368138 9780813368139
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"NEW YORK, October 5, 1977-Around 9:30 on a bright early-autumn morning in the worst neighborhood in America, two men teetered on a rotting curbside, mouths agape."
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