{"product_id":"detroit-9781412851961","title":"Detroit","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs America''s most dysfunctional big city, Detroit faces urban decay, population losses, fractured neighborhoods with impoverished households, an uneducated, unskilled workforce, too few jobs, a shrinking tax base, budgetary shortfalls, and inadequate public schools. Looking to the city''s future, Lewis D. Solomon focuses on pathways to revitalizing Detroit, while offering a cautiously optimistic viewpoint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSolomon urges an economic development strategy, one anchored in Detroit balancing its municipal and public school district''s budgets, improving the academic performance of its public schools, rebuilding its tax base, and looking to the private sector to create jobs. He advocates an overlapping, tripartite political economy, one that builds on the foundation of an appropriately sized public sector and a for-profit private sector, with the latter fueling economic growth. Although he acknowledges that Detroit faces a long road to implementation, Solomon sketches a vision of a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eI Some Background and Context on Detroit \u003cbr\u003e1 Detroit's Challenges\u003cbr\u003e2 Detroit's Substantial Assets\u003cbr\u003eII Surmounting Detroit's Fiscal Crisis and Revamping Its Municipal Public Sector and Public School District\u003cbr\u003e3 Struggling to Deal with Detroit's Fiscal Crisis\u003cbr\u003e4 Rightsizing Detroit's Public Sector\u003cbr\u003e5 Reviving the Detroit Public School District\u003cbr\u003eIII Economic Growth and Job Creation Fueled by the Private Sector\u003cbr\u003e6 Economic Development through Corporate Relocations, Financial Repopulation Incentives, and Public-Private Partnerships\u003cbr\u003e7 Economic Development through Entrepreneurship and the Creative Class\u003cbr\u003eIV A Vision of and Obstacles to the Creation of an Alternative Political Economy Sector\u003cbr\u003e8 The Potential Role of an Alternative Political Economy Sector in Detroit's Revival\u003cbr\u003e9 Conclusion: Evaluating the Likelihood of Success\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408049643863,"sku":"9781412851961","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/detroit-9781412851961","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}