Vulnerable Communities

James J. Connolly is George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State University. He is coeditor and coauthor of several books, including Print Culture Histories beyond the Metropolis. Dagney G. Faulk is Director of Research in the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University. She is coauthor of Local Government Consolidation in the United States. Emily J. Wornell is Assistant Professor of Research in the Center for Local and State Policy at Ball State University.

Vulnerable Communities: An Introduction, by James J. Connolly, Dagney G. Faulk, and Emily J. Wornell

Part I: INTERNAL DYNAMICS

1. The Perils of In-Betweenness: Fragmented Growth in a Virginia Small City, by Henry Way

2. Building Civic Infrastructure in Smaller Cities: Lessons from the Boston Fed's Working Cities Challenge on Paving the Way for Economic Opportunity, by Colleen Dawicki

3. Diversity in the Dakotas: Lessons on Intercultural Policies, by Jennifer Erickson

4. Shaking Off the Rust in the America South: Deindustrialization, Abandonment, and Revitalization in Bessemer, Alabama, by William G. Holt

Part II: PATTERNS AND STRATEGIES

5. The Economic Fortunes of Small Industrial Cities and Towns: Manufacturing, Place Luck, and the UrbanTransfer Payment Economy, by Alan Mallach

6. Where Do Small Cities Belong? The Case of theMicropolitan Area, by James Matthew Fannin and Vikash Dangal

7. Conceptualizing Shrinking Inner-Ring Suburbs asSmall Cities: Governance in Communities in Transition, by Hannah Lebovits

8. Local Government Responses to Property Tax Caps: An Analysis of Indiana Municipal Governments, by Dagney G. Faulk, Charles Taylor, and Pamela Schaal

9. Asymmetric Local Employment Multipliers, Agglomeration, and the Disappearance of Footloose Jobs, by Michael J. Hicks