Inner City

<p>Michael Porter has argued that a sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city only if it has been created elsewhere: through private for-profit initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage-not through artificial inducements charity or government. Porter's ideas have prompted endorsement as well as criticism. More importantly they have inspired a search for new solutions to inner city distress as well as a reassessment of current approaches. <i>The Inner City</i> defines a core debate in the United States over the future of a racially divided urban America. It is of inestimable importance to policy analysts government officials African American studies scholars urban studies specialists sociologists and all those concerned with inner city revitalization.</p>