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In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing while others are struggling. But all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. City governments have limited tools with which to address these problems, and many must rely on the private market to support the public good. It wasn't always this way. In Saving America's Cities, the prizewinning historian Lizabeth Cohen follows the career...
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"Around the world, as cities try to solve the riddle of creating prosperous and equitable futures for more people, again and again, they find themselves competing for the Big Prize - often a tech-based corporate headquarters, data center or lab. And this does indeed work to a point -- building such places does encourage urban renewal -- but one look at skyrocketing real estate prices and homelessness in tech hubs such as Seattle and the California...
60) Start-up city: inspiring private & public entrepreneurship, getting projects done, and having fun
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"The public-private partnerships of the future will need to embody a triple-bottom-line approach that focuses on the new P3: people-planet-profit. This book is for anyone who wants to improve the way that we live in cities, without waiting for the glacial pace of change in government or corporate settings. If you are willing to go against the tide and follow some basic lessons in goal setting, experimentation, change management, financial innovation,...