Rebooting Local Economies

Learn How to Build A Prosperous Community

Why do some communities thrive and grow while others struggle and decline? The short answer is that smart communities know how to attract and nurture the kinds of businesses and organizations they want to create a vibrant economy and higher quality of life. However, there’s much more to the story.

The chances of achieving success in building a more prosperous community are greater when you have a team composed of economic development professionals and residents who want to make their communities a better place. Ideally, this includes elected officials, board members, key stakeholders, and citizens who want to improve where they live. In many cases, though, these individuals don’t have an educational background in community and economic development and often learn on the fly. That’s why Rebooting Local Economies: How to Build Prosperous Communities was written.

The more elected officials and residents know and understand about community and economic development, the more the community will prosper. This book is a practical guide to help communities reach their goals for prosperity, with many examples of how communities and regions around the world have attained and maintained prosperity in an ever-changing environment.

It is based on the authors’ combined years of experience helping communities and regions across the country and around the world create their roadmaps to prosperity with better jobs, improved public services, and enhanced amenities.

Community prosperity is a team sport, and just like winning a championship takes time and teamwork, so does building a better community. This book is designed to help your entire team work from the same playbook, no matter their prior experience, so everyone is working toward the common goals of a thriving economy and a better place to live, work, and play.

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Using real-world examples blended with just the right amount of academic research, “Rebooting Local Economies” is the equivalent of a master class in how to build a prosperous community. If you are an economic developer of an American community in need of a turnaround at any level, Robert Pittman, Rhonda Phillips and Amanda Sutt have done the homework for you and produced a blueprint for success. They have distilled the work of community development and improvement to its essence, and they have documented the results that inevitably follow when this recipe is followed. I encourage every elected community official, city manager and economic developer in the U.S. to read this manual. It’s the best book on this topic I have read in a very long time.

Rebooting Local Economies: How to Build Prosperous Communities provides real life stories that can put you on a path to building a more prosperous community. If you’re an elected official, board member, community volunteer or citizen who aspires to live in a prosperous community, Rebooting Local Economies: How to Build Prosperous Communities is a must read.

The book was very informative - it is a must read for local leadership and a blueprint for success in economic development.

I have been lucky enough to be part of a team of elected officials that have revitalized our downtown to become the pinnacle example of how to revitalize a city. After reading Rebooting Local Economies, I realize I have not considered many gaps in our economic development plan. This book gives recent and relevant research to show trends as well as being written for anyone to easily follow regardless if you are in industry or not. It has left me with many ideas to research and implement that I hadn’t considered before. I really enjoyed the read!