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

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.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 governmentThomas D. Boston, Catherine RossCo-Editors Introduction; Abstracts of Contributions and Profiles of the Authors *; Part 1: Responses from the Academy; 1: Economic Development Strategies for the Inner City: The Need for Governmental Intervention; 2: Entrepreneurship and the Advantages of the Inner City: How to Augment the Porter Thesis; 3: Business Strategy and Access to Capital in Inner-City Revitalization; 4: Rebuilding Inner Cities: Basic Principles; 5: D?j?-vu All Over Again: Porters Model of Inner-City Redevelopment; 6: Taking Back the Inner City: A Review of Recent Proposals; 7: Political Economy of Urban Poverty in the 21st Century: How Progress and Public Policy Generate Rising Poverty; 8: Promoting Economic Development in the Inner City: The Importance of Human Resources; 9: The Porter Model of Competitive Advantage for lC/