The author develops a conceptual model that specifies six types of "community capital" assetspolity, physical, financial, human, cultural, and social-that U.S. cities, particularly those left behind in the most recent economic boom, will have to develop to thrive and prosper in the twenty-first-century knowledge-based economy. Each of these sources of "capital" is described, and specific examples of how each is manifested in selected, highly competitive new economy cities are presented. The article concludes with a discussion of the steps and strategies U.S. cities will have to pursue to develop their full complement of community capital assets.
Over the past decade, my colleagues and I in the Frank Hawkins KenanInstitute of Private Enterprise-the outreach arm of the Kenan-Flagler Business School-at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have engaged in extensive research on the forces that will shape the health and competitiveness of cities and metropolitan areas in the twenty-first-century knowledge-based economy. Our work has focused on competitiveness issues in both advanced industrial societies and emerging market countries. We have developed strategies to enhance the health and competitiveness of large-, medium-, and small-sized cities in the United States and megacities throughout the world (Behrman and
Arizona State College at Flagstaff * This is the second in a series of three articles concerned with the origin and development of racial attitude. The previous paper, "An Experimental Projective Technique for the Analysis of Racial Attitude," appeared in April issue of this JOUENAL (41:4, p. xxx). In this early article the properties of the Projective Test of Racial Attitude, the major tool in the present investigation, were analyzed.
Paralleling crisis behavior in prior pandemics and continuing a contemporary migration trend already underway, wealthy individuals and families as well as remote workers in a host of other demographic groups are fleeing major, high cost, densely settled urban centers in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. These coronavirus pandemic refugees are relocating to less densely settled suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas—creating, in some instances, new “Zoom Towns.” The implications for the future viability of large cities are far ranging if, unlike prior pandemics, the social distance moves of coronavirus pandemic refugees and the aversion to dense urban living continue post-Covid-19.
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