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Competition and Cooperation in Contemporary American Urban Development
Author(s) -
Plotnicov Leonard
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/city.1991.5.2.103
Subject(s) - restructuring , tourism , competition (biology) , economic restructuring , vitality , diversification (marketing strategy) , poverty , tertiary sector of the economy , economic growth , economic geography , development economics , business , economics , economy , political science , ecology , philosophy , theology , finance , marketing , law , biology
GLOBAL ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING has profoundly altered the heavy industrial bases of American cities, creating an increase in poverty, homelessness, and squatters in its wake. In a scramble to revive their failing or stagnant regional economies, cities have embarked on a strategy of diversification, with emphases on attracting service industries and luring visitor trade. While cooperation for economic development takes place in many forms of public‐ and private‐sector alliances, conflict occurs within cities over land use, and competition exists between cities for the presumed means of economic recovery and urban vitality, [economic restructuring, homeless, squatters, urban development, urban professionals, tourism, middle‐range analyses]