Midwestern Urban and Regional Responses to Global Economic Transition

Bowen, William M.; Kinahan, Kelly L.

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“…This subtlety is not only necessary for cities experiencing decline, but also for shrinking cities experiencing economic growth and revitalization. Places like Boston and Chicago have long prospered with populations well below their peak, and signs of revitalization are increasingly present in cities such as Philadelphia and Detroit (Bowen and Kinahan, 2014; Doucet, 2017). The distinction between types of population loss and changing household structures is fundamental to planning shrinking cities across the spectrum.…”

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Shrinking Cities, Shrinking Households, or Both?

Hartt¹,

Hackworth²

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Household size decline accounts for a substantial portion of population loss in shrinking cities, yet little research has focused on it. Much of the literature presents a simple growth/decline binary that is largely determined via population figures. In this paper, we highlight the importance and assess the impact of household size changes on population decline, and determine what types of household size declines are more acute in shrinking cities than other locales. We find that elderly households and households with school-aged children are under-represented in shrinking cities, while households with preschool aged children are over-represented. More tellingly, we find the biggest source of household-related loss in shrinking cities to be the growth of single-person households now living in houses that were once home to entire families. These findings puncture the binary on which much of the shrinking cities discourse is based. The population dynamics of most cities are subtler than either practitioners or critical scholars assert. We argue that plans and development strategies for shrinking cities should reflect a range of demographic changes, including outmigration and internal household restructuring.

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Shrinking Cities, Shrinking Households, or Both?

Hartt¹,

Hackworth²

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Ironically, the relative predictability of routinized and imposed local economic development programs can work to restrain innovation simply because individuals are not empowered to cultivate their own ideas (Boland, 2007). The publicizing of economic development efforts lessens the perception of voters that they need to be responsible for developing opportunities for themselves (Bowen & Kinahan, 2014). A cycle of politicians and other agents promising jobs as political campaign strategies, and the expectation of voters that they deliver on these promises, means that people become less able to see themselves as active participations in shaping their own futures (Bowen & Kinahan, 2014).…”

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“…The publicizing of economic development efforts lessens the perception of voters that they need to be responsible for developing opportunities for themselves (Bowen & Kinahan, 2014). A cycle of politicians and other agents promising jobs as political campaign strategies, and the expectation of voters that they deliver on these promises, means that people become less able to see themselves as active participations in shaping their own futures (Bowen & Kinahan, 2014). In time, people develop the expectation that central and local government should devise and implement policies and programs that will remove the uncertainty and instability of the current economic climate (Bowen & Kinahan, 2014).…”

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“…A cycle of politicians and other agents promising jobs as political campaign strategies, and the expectation of voters that they deliver on these promises, means that people become less able to see themselves as active participations in shaping their own futures (Bowen & Kinahan, 2014). In time, people develop the expectation that central and local government should devise and implement policies and programs that will remove the uncertainty and instability of the current economic climate (Bowen & Kinahan, 2014). Individuals become entrapped, believing themselves to have limited options, and come to focus on perceived constraints rather than freedom (Pawson & Le Heron, 2005).…”

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It is what you know : changes in the structure and role of entrepreneur networks in an industry over time

Kendall¹

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Previous research investigating the relationship between social capital and entrepreneurship has generally focused on the entrepreneur's own capacity to work their way into existing networks. There still remains a gap in terms of understanding how networks are created in the first place. This study aims to gain insight into how industry pioneers create and utilize entrepreneurial-supportive social networks. Building on existing work on network theory and industry evolution I explore three questions. First, are there structural differences in the networks of industry pioneers compared to later entrants? Second what role do diverse social networks play for industry entrants and does this role change over time? Third, does the way in which industry pioneers construct and utilize social networks influence the establishment of legitimacy for a new product category? In this mixed-methods study, I find that in the early stages of the U.S. artisan cheese industry, entrepreneurs created and utilized networks mainly for the development of human capital. Diverse networks provided a greater volume of information than tight-knit networks, and were instrumental in the creation of legitimacy for a new product category. As knowledge has become codified later entrants are more likely to create networks that enable growing market share. Gender differences were identified in that women are more likely to influence others through maintaining a high number of quality connections in which information is transferred one-to-one, and men are more likely to monitor and control the flow of information by acting as a connector between groups. Further research is needed to explore the role of gender differences in mentorship relationships in terms of network structure and role as an industry evolves.

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US Rural Poverty and International Trade

Jelavich

2017

SSRN Journal

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Midwestern Urban and Regional Responses to Global Economic Transition

Abstract: The road through the Rust Belt : from preeminence to decline to prosperity / William M. Bowen, editor. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Shrinking Cities, Shrinking Households, or Both?

Shrinking Cities, Shrinking Households, or Both?

It is what you know : changes in the structure and role of entrepreneur networks in an industry over time

US Rural Poverty and International Trade

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