 Economic Distress and Resurgence in U.S. Central CitiesYolanda K. Kodrzycki and Ana Patricia Muñoz Economic Development Quarterly, 2015, vol. 29, issue 2, 113-134 Abstract: The authors provide a review of the literature on U.S. central city growth and distress during the second half of the twentieth century. The literature reveals that city growth tended to be higher in metropolitan areas with favorable weather, higher growth, and greater human capital, whereas distress was strongly correlated with city-level manufacturing legacy. The article affirms that distress has been highly persistent but that some cities have achieved resurgence through a combination of strong leadership, collaboration across sectors and institutions, clear and broad-based strategies, and significant infrastructure investments. Finally, the article explores measurement issues by comparing two methodologies used to identify poorly performing central cities: comparisons across a comprehensive national cross-section of cities and comparisons within smaller samples of similar cities. It finds that these approaches have produced similar assessments of a city’s status, except in some cases where the city’s progress has been uneven across time or with respect to alternative criteria. Keywords: mid-size cites; economic development; resurgent cities; growth; collaboration; economic distress (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:ecdequ:v:29:y:2015:i:2:p:113-134 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Economic Development Quarterly |
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