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

by Suzanne W. Morse

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. Smart Communities offers leaders from both the public and private sectors the tools they need to create a better future for all the community's citizens. Using illustrative examples from communities around the country, Smart Communities shows how these change agents' well-structured decision-making processes can be traced to their effective use of seven key leverage

Genres: Nonfiction, Economic Development

256 pages, Hardcover

First published March 18, 2004

Reviews

[Shawn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good examples of communities that turned themselves around from the inside out. Important key principles for identifying the value that is hidden in a community, no matter how bad things appear. Great for encouraging leadership from within communities.

[Roxanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is how citizens and our local leaders can run a better community and work together for the future but not to forget about the good things form the past that still work. We only have 4 blocks of downtown but the leaders have made all new sidewalks, benches, and planters on Main Street for us and others to enjoy the downtown more.

[Nancy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great book for understanding civic responsibility