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From the Outside In : Suburban Elites, Third-Sector Organizations, and the Reshaping of Philadelphia / Carolyn T. Adams.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 10 tables, 6 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780801471858
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.1160974811 23
LOC classification:
  • HN80.P5 A33 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Regionalism and the Third Sector -- 1. States Create Transportation Authorities to Cross Local Boundaries -- 2. Third- Sector Organizations Reshape Central Cities -- 3. Outsiders Reshape the Educational Landscape -- 4. Neighborhood Nonprofits Tap Outside Resources for Development -- 5. Who Governs the Third Sector? -- Conclusion: Harnessing the Third Sector to Benefit the City -- References -- Index
Summary: In From the Outside In, Carolyn T. Adams addresses the role of suburban elites in setting development agendas for urban municipalities and their larger metropolitan regions. She shows how major nongovernmental, nonmarket institutions are taking responsibility for reshaping Philadelphia, led by suburban and state elites who sit on boards and recruit like-minded suburban colleagues to join them. In Philadelphia and other American cities, Third Sector organizations have built and expanded hospitals, universities, research centers, performing arts venues, museums, parks, and waterfronts, creating whole new districts that are expanding outward from the city's historic downtown. The author draws on three decades of scholarship on Philadelphia and her personal experience in the city’s nonprofit world to argue that suburban elites have recognized the importance of the central city to their own future and have intervened to redevelop central city land and institutions. Suburban interests and state allies have channeled critical investments in downtown development and K–12 education. Adams contrasts those suburban priorities with transportation infrastructure and neighborhood redevelopment, two policy domains in which suburban elites display less strategic engagement. From the Outside In is a rich examination of the promise and difficulty of governance that is increasingly distinct from elected government and thus divorced from the usual means of democratic control within an urban municipality.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Regionalism and the Third Sector -- 1. States Create Transportation Authorities to Cross Local Boundaries -- 2. Third- Sector Organizations Reshape Central Cities -- 3. Outsiders Reshape the Educational Landscape -- 4. Neighborhood Nonprofits Tap Outside Resources for Development -- 5. Who Governs the Third Sector? -- Conclusion: Harnessing the Third Sector to Benefit the City -- References -- Index

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In From the Outside In, Carolyn T. Adams addresses the role of suburban elites in setting development agendas for urban municipalities and their larger metropolitan regions. She shows how major nongovernmental, nonmarket institutions are taking responsibility for reshaping Philadelphia, led by suburban and state elites who sit on boards and recruit like-minded suburban colleagues to join them. In Philadelphia and other American cities, Third Sector organizations have built and expanded hospitals, universities, research centers, performing arts venues, museums, parks, and waterfronts, creating whole new districts that are expanding outward from the city's historic downtown. The author draws on three decades of scholarship on Philadelphia and her personal experience in the city’s nonprofit world to argue that suburban elites have recognized the importance of the central city to their own future and have intervened to redevelop central city land and institutions. Suburban interests and state allies have channeled critical investments in downtown development and K–12 education. Adams contrasts those suburban priorities with transportation infrastructure and neighborhood redevelopment, two policy domains in which suburban elites display less strategic engagement. From the Outside In is a rich examination of the promise and difficulty of governance that is increasingly distinct from elected government and thus divorced from the usual means of democratic control within an urban municipality.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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