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By William H. Hudnut III

ISBN-10: 0874208637

ISBN-13: 9780874208634

Author invoice Hudnut attracts on his previous adventure as mayor of Indianapolis to explain his imaginative and prescient for facing variety, encouraging sustainable improvement, discovering choices to sprawl, coping with technological swap, local collaboration, enhancing govt potency, and more.

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There are cooperative intergovernmental agreements, single-purpose special authorities and districts, councils of 48 FINDING NEW NEIGHBORS governments, coordinated planning agencies, multiservice authorities, and annexations, before a community arrives at regional consolidation. Thenarrower the range of function, the easier a particular form of regional governance is to accomplish; the broader, the harder. Examples of these intermediate steps abound. Joint planning and funding of new infrastructure, joint purchasing agreements, and sharing of recreational facilities are common.

In Chattanooga, Tennessee, leaders in the public and private sectors cobbled together $23 million in foundation money, government grants, and low-interest loans from local banks to establish Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprises, a nonprofit organization that is turning renters into homeowners at an astonishing rate of 500 per year. Two grass-roots organizations, Citizens Organized for Public Service and the Metropolitan Alliance, train citizens to become informed participants in community-building activities in San Antonio, Texas.

In Chattanooga, Tennessee, leaders in the public and private sectors cobbled together $23 million in foundation money, government grants, and low-interest loans from local banks to establish Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprises, a nonprofit organization that is turning renters into homeowners at an astonishing rate of 500 per year. Two grass-roots organizations, Citizens Organized for Public Service and the Metropolitan Alliance, train citizens to become informed participants in community-building activities in San Antonio, Texas.

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