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Recast Your City : How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Preuss, Ilana.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Central business districts.
- Community development, Urban.
- Urban renewal.
- City planning.
- Manufacturing industries--Social aspects.
- Manufacturing industries.
- Small business.
- Cities and towns--Growth.
- Cities and towns.
- Civic improvement.
- Genre:
- Instructional and educational works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D. C. : Island Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Community development expert Ilana Preuss explains how local leaders can revitalize their downtowns or neighborhood main streets by bringing in and supporting small-scale manufacturing. Small-scale manufacturing businesses help create thriving places, with local business ownership opportunities and well-paying jobs that other business types can't fulfill.
- Contents:
- What it means to recast your city
- Why we need a new economic development model
- A stronger economic development model with small-scale manufacturing
- Five steps to recast your city
- Step 1: Light the spark
- Step 2: Find and connect with new people
- Step 3: Start the conversation and get great information from your interviews
- Step 4: Analyze the input and understand what it all means
- Step 5: Be impatient and act now.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781642831931
- 164283193X
- OCLC:
- 1246582287
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