Neighborhood-based initiatives -ranging from settlement houses in the nineteenth century to the Community Action and Model Cities program of the Great Society t

Michael Porter has argued that a sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city only if it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit,

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Reports on progress in the fight against the ingrained poverty and social problems of many of the USA's most devastated areas. Extensive case studies are provid