Empowerment in Chicago: Grassroots Participation in Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation

By Michael Bennett

This timely work examines the effects of the most ambitious urban policy in the Chicago area in more than twenty years -- empowerment zones. Empowerment in Chicago asks and answers the hard questions about Chicago's early experience with the EZ process, providing an overview and history of the empowerment zone initiative as an economic development strategy. It includes a wealth of information about economic growth, job development, quality of life, and citizen participation in Chicago's empowerment zone, enterprise communities, and other communities in the Chicago metropolitan area.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966018001
• ISBN13: 9780966018004
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Great Cities Inst
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"