Community Culture And Economic Development

Author : Meredith Ramsay
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438448886

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Community, Culture, and Economic Development, Second Edition by Meredith Ramsay Pdf

Community economic development is conventionally explained using one of two models: a market model that assumes individuals always attempt to maximize their wealth, or a growth model that assumes land use is controlled by real estate developers who invariably pursue outside investment as a way of increasing land values and creating jobs and opportunities. In the first edition of Community, Culture, and Economic Development, Meredith Ramsay's close study of two small towns on Maryland's Lower Shore demonstrated that neither model can explain why these communities, alike in so many ways, responded so differently to economic decline or why archaic hierarchies of race, class, and gender remain deeply embedded and poverty seems nearly intractable. Ramsay showed how the lack of economic progress in Somerset, Maryland's poorest county, can best be explained by factoring history, culture, and social relations into the investigator's research. In this second edition she discusses changes that have taken place in the county since the early 1990s, including the dramatic legal victory of the "Somerset Six" and the Maryland ACLU, which ultimately paved the way for the election of an African American to a top county position for the first time in history.

Author : Laura A. Reese,Raymond A. Rosenfeld
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780761916918

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The Civic Culture of Local Economic Development by Laura A. Reese,Raymond A. Rosenfeld Pdf

"The focus on economic development policy provides a window on local decision making and allows for the development of a theory, introduced by the authors, about the role of local civic culture in framing local decisions of all types. This ultimately provides a theoretical vehicle for categorizing cities and predicting policy outcomes.

Author : Meredith Ramsay
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0791427498

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Community, Culture, and Economic Development by Meredith Ramsay Pdf

A comparative study of economic development policy, and its relationship with local power structures and cultural and social relations, in two Maryland towns that have rejected development.

Author : Silvia Cerisola
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788975292

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Cultural Heritage, Creativity and Economic Development by Silvia Cerisola Pdf

The book explores the relationship between cultural heritage and local economic development by introducing the original idea that one possible mediator between the two can be identified as creativity. The book econometrically verifies this idea and demonstrates that cultural heritage, through its inspirational role on different creative talents, generates an indirect positive effect on local economic development. These results justify important new policy recommendations in the field of cultural heritage.

Author : Eric Shragge,Michael Toye
Publisher : Sydney, N.S. : Cape Breton University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000109152185

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Community Economic Development by Eric Shragge,Michael Toye Pdf

Communities have long been ahead of governments in responding to changes in the economy, forging ahead with innovative grassroots projects that now make up a substantial portion of economic development initiatives. Having made major gains in practice and having built local capacities through innovation, Community Economic Development now stands at a crossroads. In Building for Social Change, Eric Shragge, Michael Toye and colleagues from across the country offer a timely critical examination of CED practices and debates. This book is designed for CED practitioners, for others working in community-based organizations and those being trained. There are a growing number of post-secondary programs in English Canada that educate students in CED and related fields such as regional development, yet there are not many publications that provide analytical perspectives and debate. The goal of this book is to describe and analyze CED practice, primarily in Canada, through a wide range of subjects--the evolution of its definitions, economic dimensions and the key elements that form its context. Building for Social Change situates CED in wide political, economic and social contexts: rich examples of the scope and practices, and some of the limits--in Aboriginal communities, as a tool to support women, psychiatric survivor enterprises, housing and worker ownerships--are explored to help spur further critical discussion and debate.

Author : Don Adams,Arlene Goldbard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Arts and globalization
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113069491

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Community, Culture and Globalization by Don Adams,Arlene Goldbard Pdf

Author : Meredith Ramsay
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438448879

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Community, Culture, and Economic Development, Second Edition by Meredith Ramsay Pdf

Newly updated comparative study of economic development policy, and its relationship with local power structures and cultural and social relations, in two Maryland towns. Community economic development is conventionally explained using one of two models: a market model that assumes individuals always attempt to maximize their wealth, or a growth model that assumes land use is controlled by real estate developers who invariably pursue outside investment as a way of increasing land values and creating jobs and opportunities. In the first edition of Community, Culture, and Economic Development, Meredith Ramsay’s close study of two small towns on Maryland’s Lower Shore demonstrated that neither model can explain why these communities, alike in so many ways, responded so differently to economic decline or why archaic hierarchies of race, class, and gender remain deeply embedded and poverty seems nearly intractable. Ramsay showed how the lack of economic progress in Somerset, Maryland’s poorest county, can best be explained by factoring history, culture, and social relations into the investigator’s research. In this second edition she discusses changes that have taken place in the county since the early 1990s, including the dramatic legal victory of the “Somerset Six” and the Maryland ACLU, which ultimately paved the way for the election of an African American to a top county position for the first time in history. Praise for the First Edition “This is a fascinating and sophisticated account of rural politics that is much more than anecdotal. The book is unique in applying theories developed in the study of urban policy (market, growth machine, regime) to the politics of rural places. The analysis rings true; it is both theoretically interesting and factually revealing. It may be the best account of small-town politics since the classic Small Town in Mass Society.” — Alvin D. Sokolow, University of California Davis “On rare occasions a book has such depth of insight and freshness of presentation that it breaks down conventional distinctions among facts, values, and theory. Meredith Ramsay’s account of two rural communities is such a study. It incorporates all three in a seamless account. This is a book about everyday people engaged in real struggles, and it never loses sight of the context in which they operate. Ramsay makes social and historical embeddedness come alive and inform in a way that few authors can.” — Clarence Stone, University of Maryland

Author : Meade, Rosie,Shaw, Mae
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781447340539

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Arts, Culture and Community Development by Meade, Rosie,Shaw, Mae Pdf

How and why are arts and cultural practices meaningful to communities? Highlighting examples from Lebanon, Latin America, China, Ireland, India, Sri Lanka and beyond, this exciting book explores the relationship between the arts, culture and community development. Academics and practitioners from six continents discuss how diverse communities understand, re-imagine or seek to change personal, cultural, social, economic or political conditions while using the arts as their means and spaces of engagement. Investigating the theory and practice of ‘cultural democracy’, this book explores a range of aesthetic forms including song, music, muralism, theatre, dance, and circus arts.

Author : Gertrude Anne MacIntyre
Publisher : University College of Cape Breton Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015047496123

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Perspectives on Communities by Gertrude Anne MacIntyre Pdf

Author : Monica C. Diochon
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773525408

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Entrepreneurship and Community Economic Development by Monica C. Diochon Pdf

An exploration of the factors that influence a community's effectiveness in fostering entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development.

Author : Laura A. Reese,Raymond A. Rosenfeld
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781452252131

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The Civic Culture of Local Economic Development by Laura A. Reese,Raymond A. Rosenfeld Pdf

In this seminal work, the authors argue that there are distinct local factors that shape the environment of economic development decision-making. These factors, taken together, constitute a community′s local civic culture. Using survey and case study data from U.S. and Canadian cities, the authors make the case that different cultures will produce different types of economic development policies, and that local civic culture will effect the whole array of local policies. The focus on economic development policy provides a window on local decision-making and allows for the development of a theory, introduced by the authors, about the role of local civic culture in framing local decisions of all types. This ultimately provides a theoretical vehicle for categorizing cities and predicting policy outcomes. The book concludes with an overview of what is known about the economic development process and highlights the questions raised about that knowledge by the analyses used here and the focus on civic cultures. New research questions are posed and new directions raised for continued application of a local civic culture approach toward understanding urban policy processes.

Author : Max O. Stephenson Jr.,Scott Tate
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317688570

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Arts and Community Change by Max O. Stephenson Jr.,Scott Tate Pdf

Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas addresses the growing number of communities adopting arts and culture-based development methods to influence social change. Providing community workers and planners with strategies to develop arts policy that enriches communities and their residents, this collection critically examines the central tensions and complexities in arts policy, paying attention to issues of gentrification and stratification. Including a variety of case studies from across the United States and Canada, these success stories and best practice approaches across many media present strategies to design appropriate policy for unique populations. Edited by Max Stephenson, Jr. and A. Scott Tate of Virginia Tech, Arts and Community Change presents 10 chapters from artistic and community leaders; essential reading for students and practitioners in economic development and arts management.

Author : John Eger
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783640615032

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The creative community by John Eger Pdf

Scientific Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, San Diego State University, language: English, abstract: Creating a twenty-first-century city is not so much a question of technology as it is of jobs, dollars and quality of life. A community's plan to reinvent itself for the new, knowledge-based economy and society therefore requires educating all its citizens about this new global revolution in the nature of work. To succeed, cities must prepare their citizens to take ownership of their communities and educate the next generation of leaders and workers to meet the new global challenges of what is now being termed the "Creative Economy.” At the heart of such efforts must be recognition of the vital roles that art and technology play in enhancing economic development and, ultimately, defining a "creative community" -- a community that exploits the vital linkages among art, technology and commerce. A community with a sense of place. A community that nurtures attracts and holds the most creative and innovation workers. Those communities placing a premium on cultural, ethnic, and artistic diversity, reinventing their knowledge factories for the creative age, and building the new information infrastructures for our age, will likely burst with creativity and entrepreneurial fervor. These are the ingredients so essential to developing and attracting the bright and creative people to generate new patents and inventions, innovative world-class products and services, and the finance and marketing plans to support them. Nothing less will ensure a city's economic, social, and political viability in the twenty-first century.

Author : Robert Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578690896

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From Connectivity to Community by Robert Bell Pdf

From Connectivity to Community was written to help communities - including the small-to-midsize ones that make up the majority - develop the broadband and digital assets that the modern economy demands and turn them into inclusive prosperity and social and cultural growth. It is written for community leaders in local governments and regional districts...for members of legislatures, educators, technology providers, business leaders, agencies, economic development and regional planning organizations...for people who care deeply about the future of the place called home and are willing to take action to make it a dynamic and successful one. Growth in your local economy, in the social richness of your community and in its traditions and culture are the things that make a community worth living in. It is what attracts outsiders to settle there, what keeps people and employers from moving away, and what makes possible every other thing we love about the place called home. Today those things are under siege all over the world from massive waves of change in the economy, in society and in culture generated - as undersea earthquakes generate tidal waves - by technology change. This book is your guide to a new approach to economic development that will enable your community to adapt, survive and thrive amid the storm. If you are looking for advice on becoming a Smart City, you will find some of that here. But Smart City stuff is, frankly, just tinkering around the edges of the big, hairy, inescapable challenges of our time. Mastering a few technology tricks to make your municipality or county run better is good. But it is not going to change lives for the better. It will not create employment or drive inclusive growth. It will not keep the brightest youth from leaving town for greener pastures. It will not give birth to the next generation of employers or ensure that your people have the skills needed to work for them. You may start your journey with a Smart City project, but we hope you will notch up much greater achievements before the end.

Author : Stewart E. Perry
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1987-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438415901

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Communities on the Way by Stewart E. Perry Pdf

It's become an all too familiar headline—plant closes, employees laid off, another community plunged into economic despair. Stewart Perry looks beyond the headlines to our "forgotten" communities, showing what urban and rural areas can do and are doing to revitalize their sagging economies. The acknowledged authority in the field, Perry herein provides the first full-length systematic treatment of community-based economic development (CED). As the brainchild of the local residents and leaders, CED's success is linked to the ability of community members to identify their particular problems and to formulate solutions for local change. Perry cites dozens of case studies from his own consulting experiences in communities in the United States and Canada, illustrating the practical and conceptual applications of the approach. New means to achieve the economic health of communities are illustrated by the efforts of diverse communities such as East Los Angeles; Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia; the Appalachian hillsides of southeastern Kentucky; the Hunts Point district of the Bronx; the Point St. Charles neighborhood of Montreal; and Hancock County, Georgia. The experience of each locality combines the human dimensions of community development—the psychological and cultural implications—as well as the vital economic considerations. Perry demonstrates the innovative ideas developing out of the community development corporation strategy, both for encouraging local economic growth and rethinking national economic policy.