About this nonfiction
From the outside in. Adams, Third-sector organizations, and the reshaping of Philadelphia : suburban elites, third-sector organizations, and the reshaping of Philadelphia by Adams, Carolyn Teich is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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
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- Author
- Adams, Carolyn Teich
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801479984
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Political Science