Smart Communities E-Book

Suzanne W. Morse

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 374

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

The new edition of the acclaimed guide to strategic decision-making in community planning, development, and collaboration Based on the results of more than a decade of research by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change, Smart Communities provides directions for strategic decision-making and outlines the key strategies used by thousands of leaders who have worked to create successful communities. Outlining seven "leverage points" for decision-making used by thousands of leaders who have worked to create successful communities, this new Second Edition offers leaders from both the public and private sectors the tools they need to build a civic infrastructure and create a better future for all the community's citizens. * Second Edition has been thoroughly updated with current knowledge and research * Covers new developments from current design thinking and strategy literature to innovation and invention in communities * Advises on how to create community readiness that will help avert problems before they begin * All case vignettes have been revised to include more detailed information about the process and application of the seven leverage points * Examples from communities around the country illustrate how these change agents' well-structured decision-making processes can be traced to their effective use of the seven key leverage points Smart Communities offers hope to those who are striving to improve their communities and addresses vital issues such as poverty, race relations, and children's health and welfare.

Leseprobe

Contents

Cover

Praise for Smart Communities

Title page

Copyright page

Preface

The Ideas That Inform This Book

Finding a Guide for Success: Process + Action

Who Should Read This Book and Why

Identifying the Cases

Overview of Contents

Acknowledgments

The Author

CHAPTER ONE: Building the Foundation for Community Change

Knowing Where to Build the Road

How We Got Where We Are

What Is in a Name

The Love-Hate Relationship with Cities

Trends of Growth and Decline of Communities

The Effects of Globalization on Communities

The Mailboxes on Main Street

Finding Community Solutions from Within

New Ways of Working

Community Fundamentals

CHAPTER TWO: Investing Right the First Time

The Wicked Problems

Kinds of Community Capital

How Decisions Are Made … Matters

Setting Priorities on Community Investments

More Than Just a Bottom Line

Finding a Guide for Investment Success

Choosing the Right Investment: Creating New Scenarios for Change

CHAPTER THREE: Working Together

Problems Cannot Be Solved Alone

What Is Working Together?

How Joint Efforts Can Work Better

Why Do Efforts Fail?

Working Together Is a Necessity, Not a Luxury

Working Together Is the Name of the Game in the New Economy

CHAPTER FOUR: Building on Community Strengths

Asset-Driven Approach to Community Development

Developing a Community from Within

Assets Come in All Sizes

Assets Disguised as Liabilities

Connect Clusters of Assets to Build Synergy

CHAPTER FIVE: Practicing Democracy

A Different Kind of Politics

Recognizing That a Problem Is a Problem

A Public Willing to Act

The Changing Shape of Engagement

The Digital Citizen

Open Government

Can We Talk?

CHAPTER SIX: Preserving the Past

Increased Property Values and Increased Tourism

The Intersection of Place, History, and Demand

Links to Our Community and to Our Past

No More Just Knocking Down or Paving Over

New Paradigms for Downtown

CHAPTER SEVEN: Growing New Leaders

A New Model for Leadership

Moving from Hand-Wringing to Hand-Holding

Potential Leaders Are All Around Us

The Promise of Leadership

Elected Leaders Can Lead

Leaders Change the Conversation

Leaders Believe It Can Be Done

Organizations Taking the Long View

More Leadership Is Better

CHAPTER EIGHT: Inventing the Future

Why Is Change So Important But So Hard to Manage?

Innovation: Community Style

Globalization Is Real … and Not a Surprise

The Maps Change

Sometimes You Have to Reboot

Final Thoughts

References

Index

List of Illustrations

Figure 2.1.

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Praise for Smart Communities

“Smart Communities reminds us that nurturing community is the most difficult, most daunting, and most important work we do. Morse challenges us to get this right, and thankfully she leads the way.”

—Sherry Magill, president, Jessie Ball duPont Fund

“Any community members looking to move beyond that which has defined them for years, into a thriving community, owe it to themselves to read this book. Morse provides not only powerful tools for a community’s resurgence, but also insightful examples of how community leaders and citizens alike sought to remake their communities and succeeded. I was so taken by its timeless and compelling strategies that I bought 50 copies and handed them out around town.”

—Daniel J. Phelan, president, Jackson College, Michigan

“With Smart Communities, Suzanne Morse has achieved a unique blend of a national perspective and a community-centered study of what has helped, and will help, communities be successful over the long haul. There are many valuable lessons to be learned here, none more essential—whether for a big urban city or a small rural town—than preserving and maximizing assets. Communities that make best use of their assets will win, and Morse gives us all a road map for getting there.”

—Anne B. Pope, executive director, Tennessee Commission for the Arts, and former federal cochair, Appalachian Regional Commission

“A strong nation is dependent on strong communities—people coming together to address the problems of the community and its members. Smart Communities addresses how we can work together to help strengthen our nation.”

—Alma Powell, chair, America’s Promise Alliance

“Suzanne Morse’s Smart Communities is an inspirational, informative road map for all those who want to tackle public problems and strengthen their communities. There should be a copy in every public library. Read it, take hope from it, and use it!”

—Martha McCoy, executive director, Everyday Democracy, and president, The Paul J. Aicher Foundation

The Instructor’s Guide to accompany the second edition of Smart Communities is available for free at www.wiley.com/college/morse

SMART COMMUNITIES

How Citizens and Local Leaders Can Use Strategic Thinking to Build a Brighter Future

Second Edition

Suzanne W. Morse

Cover design by Michael Cook

Cover image © iStockphoto

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Morse, Suzanne W. (Suzanne Whitlock)

Smart communities : how citizens and local leaders can use strategic thinking to build a brighter future / Suzanne W. Morse. —Second edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-42700-2 (cloth); ISBN 978-1-118-84357-4 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-84355-0 (ebk)

1. Community leadership. 2. Community organization. I. Title.

HM781.M67 2014

307—dc23

2013046336

Preface

Ten years ago the world had not talked on an iPhone; communicated via YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook; learned the ins and outs of organizational politics from characters on The Office; or seen the nation’s talent on American Idol. Three-dimensional printers now are making artificial limbs more compatible; dental crowns, implants, and dentures more affordable; and the prospects for new applications unlimited. No one would argue that enormous technological and social changes have not occurred during the past decade.

Unfortunately, far too much has not changed. Rates of poverty hover at the 15 percent mark, and too many Americans barely make ends meet, if at all. The world watched while Hurricane Katrina exposed our national inequities through the lens of New Orleans; Detroit and Kodak went bankrupt; and Youngstown shrank. The culprit for the downward spiral is not one thing or one program or even the Great Recession of 2007–2009, but a concentration of systemic issues. In this cloud of dust, however, places such as Houston grew, an auto trail in the South was forged, and regions such as the Fox Cities showed how it is done. Research over the last fifty years says that if policies, practices, programs, and the public will could align, the numbers would improve and self-sufficiency would increase. A clear definition of the problems and challenges, an openness to opportunities, and an implementation strategy for the long run are needed to make real change. The secret formula is merging how to work with precise community priorities.