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The New Localism
How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
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2018
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The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.
In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.
Power is shifting in the world: downward from national governments and states to cities and metropolitan communities; horizontally from the public sector to networks of public, private and civic actors; and globally along circuits of capital, trade, and innovation.
This new locus of power—this new localism—is emerging by necessity to solve the grand challenges characteristic of modern societies: economic competitiveness, social inclusion and opportunity; a renewed public life; the challenge of diversity; and the imperative of environmental sustainability. Where rising populism on the right and the left exploits the grievances of those left behind in the global economy, new localism has developed as a mechanism to address them head on.
New localism is not a replacement for the vital roles federal governments play; it is the ideal complement to an effective federal government, and, currently, an urgently needed remedy for national dysfunction.
In The New Localism, Katz and Nowak tell the stories of the cities that are on the vanguard of problem solving. Pittsburgh is catalyzing inclusive growth by inventing and deploying new industries and technologies. Indianapolis is governing its city and metropolis through a network of public, private and civic leaders. Copenhagen is using publicly owned assets like their waterfront to spur large scale redevelopment and finance infrastructure from land sales.
Out of these stories emerge new norms of growth, governance, and finance and a path toward a more prosperous, sustainable, and inclusive society. Katz and Nowak imagine a world in which urban institutions finance the future through smart investments in innovation, infrastructure and children and urban intermediaries take solutions created in one city and adapt and tailor them to other cities with speed and precision.
As Katz and Nowak show us in The New Localism, “Power now belongs to the problem solvers.”
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Copyright year
2018
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-3164-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-3165-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
291
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Table of Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgements No access
Power Reimagined No access Pages 1 - 16
New Localism and the American City No access Pages 17 - 40
Everything Has Changed No access Pages 41 - 58
Revaluing Urban Growth: Pittsburgh Case Study No access Pages 59 - 88
Rethinking Governance: Indianapolis Case Study No access Pages 89 - 118
Reclaiming Public Wealth: Copenhagen Case Study No access Pages 119 - 144
New Localism and Economic Inclusion No access Pages 145 - 172
Inventing Metro Finance No access Pages 173 - 200
Financing the Future No access Pages 201 - 222
Toward a Nation of Problem Solvers: A Call to Action No access Pages 223 - 248
Notes No access Pages 249 - 274
Index No access Pages 275 - 286
Reader's Guide No access Pages 287 - 291
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