The Economies Of Central City Neighborhoods

by Richard Bingham, Zhongcai Zhang

Overview

In The Economies of Central City Neighborhoods Bingham and Zhang examine the location of industry employment in a variety of producer and consumer-oriented industries in relation to major neighborhood characteristics such as demographic, labor force, socioeconomic, and housing variables. While the primacy of poverty is an aspect of central city neighborhoods that drives the growth and decline of neighborhood economies, it implies the significance of effective intervention at early stages of neighborhood economic disintegration. Neighborhood cluster of industries suggests a direction of neighborhood redevelopment, and the pervasive spill-over effects of this necessitate the coordination among redevelopment initiatives of bordering neighborhoods.The research in this text contributes to the urban literature by providing an industry-by-industry analysis of the economies of central city sub-areas in Ohio. This study is informative and illuminating to central city revitalization/redevelopment planning and related efforts that often take place at the neighborhood level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813397719
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	04/04/2001
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1280L (what's this?)

About the Author

Richard Bingham

Table of Contents

Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Economies in a Central-City Context , Ohio’s Central Cities , Research Design and Methodology , Central-City Neighborhoods , Minor (Producer-Oriented) Employers , Major Neighborhood Employers: Producer-Oriented Industries , Major Neighborhood Employers: Consumer-Oriented Industries , Explaining Neighborhood Social/Industrial Linkages , A Simultaneous Equation Approach for Determining Neighborhood Industry Activity , Poverty, Race, Industry Location, and Urban Neighborhoods , Appendix A , Appendix B

Editorial Reviews

In a study using the zip code-level Ohio Economic Development Database with implications for urban revitalization, Bingham (public administration-urban studies, Cleveland State U.) and Zhang (market research, Ohio Savings Bank) apply a factor analysis model to explain variation in manufacturing-based industry employment across central Ohio neighborhoods. Industry factor scores applied to seven cities' demographic and socioeconomic variables are appended. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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