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- catalog abstract ""This probing comparison of two struggling company towns, one in Japan and one in the United States, offers valuable urban revitalization lessons. The author compares urban revitalization efforts in Flint, Michigan, the declining automobile industry town, and Omuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, home of the largest coal mine in Japan, from the early 1970s through the early 1990s. Striking similarites emerge, both in the way redevelopment policy is made and in policy content. For example, both cities work to create new jobs, attract tourism, and diversify their economic bases. Despite these similarities, there are also differences that help the Japanese system do a better job of managing socioeconomic decline. Notably, the Japanese system is better suited to effecting incremental improvements in local socioeconomic conditions, while the American system often takes the big gamble that, if successful, dramatically improves conditions. This gamble, however, can also result in a failure to reverse the city's economic decline. No Miracles Here finds that although Japanese and American cities rarely achieve truly successful revitalization, the Japanese have been more successful at avoiding the pitfalls of bad redevelopment policy."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12130086.
- catalog coverage "Japan Social conditions.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""This probing comparison of two struggling company towns, one in Japan and one in the United States, offers valuable urban revitalization lessons. The author compares urban revitalization efforts in Flint, Michigan, the declining automobile industry town, and Omuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, home of the largest coal mine in Japan, from the early 1970s through the early 1990s. Striking similarites emerge, both in the way redevelopment policy is made and in policy content. For example, both cities work to create new jobs, attract tourism, and diversify their economic bases. Despite these similarities, there are also differences that help the Japanese system do a better job of managing socioeconomic decline.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "No Miracles Here: Urban Redevelopment Efforts In Japan And The United States -- A Tale Of Two Cities: Redevelopment Background And Strategy -- A Tale Of Two Theme Parks: The Geobio World-Autoworld Comparison -- Downtown Retail Renewal -- Industrial Park Surprises.".
- catalog description "Notably, the Japanese system is better suited to effecting incremental improvements in local socioeconomic conditions, while the American system often takes the big gamble that, if successful, dramatically improves conditions. This gamble, however, can also result in a failure to reverse the city's economic decline. No Miracles Here finds that although Japanese and American cities rarely achieve truly successful revitalization, the Japanese have been more successful at avoiding the pitfalls of bad redevelopment policy."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xi, 208 p. :".
- catalog identifier "079144791X (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791447928 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "SUNY series in popular culture and political change".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog spatial "Japan Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Japan.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "307.3/416/0952 21".
- catalog subject "HT178.J3 G55 2001".
- catalog subject "Urban policy Japan.".
- catalog subject "Urban policy United States.".
- catalog subject "Urban renewal Japan.".
- catalog subject "Urban renewal United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "No Miracles Here: Urban Redevelopment Efforts In Japan And The United States -- A Tale Of Two Cities: Redevelopment Background And Strategy -- A Tale Of Two Theme Parks: The Geobio World-Autoworld Comparison -- Downtown Retail Renewal -- Industrial Park Surprises.".
- catalog title "No miracles here : fighting urban decline in Japan and the United States / Theodore J. Gilman.".
- catalog type "text".