Smart communities : how citizens and local leaders can use strategic thinking to build a brighter future / Suzanne W. Morse ; cover design by Michael Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morse, Suzanne W. (Suzanne Whitlock), author.

Contributor:

Cook, Michael, cover designer.

Series:

Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community leadership.

Community organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, California : Jossey-Bass, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The new edition of the acclaimed guide to strategic decision-making in community planning, development, and collaboration Based on the results of more than a decade of research by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change, Smart Communities provides directions for strategic decision-making and outlines the key strategies used by thousands of leaders who have worked to create successful communities. Outlining seven ""leverage points"" for decision-making used by thousands of leaders who have worked to create successful communities, this new Second Edition offers leaders from

Contents:

Cover; Praise for Smart Communities; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; The Ideas That Inform This Book; Finding a Guide for Success: Process + Action; Who Should Read This Book and Why; Identifying the Cases; Overview of Contents; Acknowledgments; The Author; CHAPTER ONE: Building the Foundation for Community Change; Knowing Where to Build the Road; How We Got Where We Are; What Is in a Name; The Love-Hate Relationship with Cities; Trends of Growth and Decline of Communities; The Effects of Globalization on Communities; The Mailboxes on Main Street

Finding Community Solutions from Within New Ways of Working; Community Fundamentals; CHAPTER TWO: Investing Right the First Time; The Wicked Problems; Kinds of Community Capital; How Decisions Are Made . . . Matters; Setting Priorities on Community Investments; More Than Just a Bottom Line; Finding a Guide for Investment Success; Ann Arbor, Michigan: A City on the Hunt; Choosing the Right Investment: Creating New Scenarios for Change; Portland, Oregon: A Place That Is Getting It Right; Seattle Still Soaring; CHAPTER THREE: Working Together; Problems Cannot Be Solved Alone; Knowledge Holders

Ripple-Effect Stakeholders What Is Working Together?; How Joint Efforts Can Work Better; Why Do Efforts Fail?; Working Together Is a Necessity, Not a Luxury; Chattanooga: A Real Joint Venture; Small and Together Still Works: Almena, Wisconsin; Austin: It Is Not Weird, It Is Working; Working Together Is the Name of the Game in the New Economy; CHAPTER FOUR: Building on Community Strengths; Asset-Driven Approach to Community Development; Developing a Community from Within; Broadmoor: Much More Than a Dot; Assets Come in All Sizes; Colquitt, Georgia: We've Got a Story to Tell-Our Own

Chimney Rock, North Carolina: A Mountain and a Plan Assets Disguised as Liabilities; Connect Clusters of Assets to Build Synergy; CHAPTER FIVE: Practicing Democracy; A Different Kind of Politics; Recognizing That a Problem Is a Problem; A Public Willing to Act; The Changing Shape of Engagement; The Digital Citizen; Open Government; Oregon Citizens' Initiative Review: More Informed Voters; Jacksonville Community Council, Inc.: Deciding the Future; Hampton: Local Government as Convenor and Listener; Can We Talk?; CHAPTER SIX: Preserving the Past; Increased Property Values and Increased Tourism

The Intersection of Place, History, and Demand Links to Our Community and to Our Past; Lowell, Massachusetts: The Spindle City; Birmingham: Owning the Past and Telling the Story; No More Just Knocking Down or Paving Over; Charlottesville: A World-Class City; Asheville: The Jewel in the Mountains; Denver: The Gold Mine Neighborhood; New Paradigms for Downtown; CHAPTER SEVEN: Growing New Leaders; A New Model for Leadership; Moving from Hand-Wringing to Hand-Holding; Potential Leaders Are All Around Us; The Promise of Leadership; Elected Leaders Can Lead; Leaders Change the Conversation

Leaders Believe It Can Be Done

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118843550

111884355X

9781118843574

1118843576

OCLC:

871781047