Recast Your City - How to Save Your Downtown With Small-Scale Manufacturing

Informationen zum Autor Ilana Preuss is the Founder & CEO of Recast City. Prior to that she was the Vice President and Chief of Staff at Smart Growth America and led the technical assistance program at the EPA Smart Growth Program. She is a TEDx speaker on, "The Economic Power of Great Places," and a featured keynote speaker. Klappentext In Recast Your City: How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing, 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. Preuss draws from her experience working with local governments, large and small, from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Columbia, Missouri, to Fremont, California. She provides tools, such as her five-step method for recasting your city, that local leaders in government, business, and real estate as well as entrepreneurs and advocates in every community can use. Zusammenfassung A guide to growing inclusive local economies by investing in and supporting small-scale manufacturing.

Product details

• Authors: Ilana Preuss
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781642831924
• ISBN: 978-1-64283-192-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, Urban & municipal planning, United States of America, USA, urban economics, Urban communities, Manufacturing industries, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Regional / urban economics, Urban communities / city life