Sean Safford

Comparison of Allentown, PA and Youngstown, OH concludes that Allentown came back and Youngstown has not because of sociological factors. Allentown, everyone pulled together and had a participative elite, where Youngstown was more segmented and had a prescriptive elite. Criticism: study ignores other factors like geography, proximity to East Coast for Allentown, that could have also been a comeback factor, thus leading to a perhaps overemphasis on the sociological factors. Part of the total story though, and well written… (más)