Economic Development in the Inner City
| Professor Richard Taub |
Public Policy 246 (=Sociology 241/353) |
| Gates-Blake 223 | Autumn 2000 |
| Office Hours: Wed. 2:30-4:30 |
Email: rpt2@midway |
The world is full of a number of plans to encourage inner-city development. We will review some of them to see of what value they might be. Along the way, we will explore the relative merit of place related strategies compared to general economic growth strategies. Are there times, we will ask, where place-targeted activities make sense?
There will be a term paper and a final.
Course Outline
Week 1: The Growth of Cities and Economic Growth
Assigned reading: Urban Fortunes, Pages 1-98
Suggested reading: Bairoch, Paul, Cities and Economic Development, University of Chicago Press, 1988
Jacobs, Jane, The Economy of Cities, Vintage, 1969
Week 2: Assigned reading: Sen, Hirshman “Rise and Decline…” Rostow, Walt 18-62, 73-122
Week 3: Renewing Cities
Assigned reading: Gittel, whole book
Week 4: Residential
Choice and City Growth
Assigned reading: Hirshman “Exit…"
Suggested reading: Taub, Paths of Neighborhood Change,
University of Chicago Press
Week 5: More of the same
Week 6: Housing Programs
Assigned reading: (Halpern), PP. 57-82
Suggested reading: Weicher, John, “Housing, Federal Policies and Programs. American Enterprise Institute, 1980
Week 7: Neighborhood Development
Assigned reading: Halpern, P 57-126
Week 8: Enterprise
Zones and the Like
Assigned reading: Reading Packet (can be purchased at the Social Sciences Duplication Center, $6.75)
Week 9: The Role of Credit and other aspects of Business Development
Assigned reading: Taub, 1-69
Weeks 10: More of the same
Assigned reading: Taub (rest of book)
Suggested reading: Bornstein, David, The Price of a Dream, Simon and Shuster, 1996
ARTICLES:
Dowall, David. "An Evaluation of California Enterprise Zone Programs" in Economic Development Quarterly, Volume 10, No. 4, November 1996, Sage Publications.
Hirshman, Albert, “The Rise and Decline of Development Economics” in Essays in Trespassing, Cambridge University Press, 1984
Riposa, Gerry, "From Enterprise Zones to Empowerment Zones," in American Behavioral Scientist, Volume 39, No. 5, March 1996, Sage Publications.
Rubin, Barry and Margaret Wilder, "Rhetoric versus Reality," in Journal of the American Planning Association, Volume 62, No. 4, Autumn 1996, American Planning Association.
Sen, Amartya, “Development: Which Way Now?" In Resources, Values and Development, Harvard University Press, 1984
Books:
1.
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Title: RENEWING CITIES
Author: GITTEL, ROSS
ISBN: 0691042934
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Year: 1992
2.
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Title: REBUILDING THE INNER CITY
Author: HALPERN, ROBERT
ISBN: 0231081154
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Year: 1996
3.
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Title: EXIT VOICE AND LOYALTY
Author: HIRSHMAN, ALBERT
ISBN: 0674276604
Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Year: 1970
4.
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Title: URBAN FORTUNES
Author: LOGAN, JOHN R. & MOLOTCH, HARVEY
ISBN: 0520055772
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Year: 1987
5.
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Title: THE STAGES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH
Author: ROSTOW, WALT W.
ISBN: 0521409284
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Year: 1995
6.
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Title: COMMUNITY CAPITALISM
Author: TAUB, RICHARD
ISBN: 0875841937
Publisher: HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PRESS
Year: 1994