Community development expert Ilana Preuss explains how local leaders can revitalize their downtowns or neighborhood main streets by bringing in and supporting small-scale manufacturing. Small-scale manufacturing businesses help create thriving places, with local business ownership opportunities and well-paying jobs that other business types can't fulfill.

In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbourhoods and the cities they inhabit. Studying the factors which enable small businesses to survive and thrive, they highlight the success of a Canadian concept which has spread worldwide: the Business Improvement Area (BIA). BIAs allow small-scale entrepreneurs to pool their resources with like-minded businesses, becoming sources of urban rejuvenation, magnets for human talent, and incubators for local innovation in cities around the globe. Small Business and the City also analyses the policies necessary to support this urban vitality, describing how cities can encourage and support locally owned independent businesses. An inspiring account of the dynamism of urban life,Small Business and the City introduces a new “main street agenda” for the twenty-first century city.

Examines small business firms' participation in federally funded urban renewal programs.

Begins a series of hearings to be held around the country to determine the role of the Federal Government in the development of small business enterprises in the urban ghettos. May 24 hearing was held in Newark, N.J.; and June 17 hearing was held in New York City. Includes a paper entitled "Ghediplan -- Ghetto Economic Development and Industrialization Plan," by Dunbar S. McLaurin (p. 233-291), and the Report of the Mayor's Task Force for the Economic Redevelopment of Harlem, Jan. 15, 1968 (p. 292-475).

Reviews role of small business in small towns, and rural efforts to achieve stable economic growth and provide improved public services. June 8 hearing was held in Atchison, Kans.; June 9 hearing was held in Brigham City, Utah, and Logan, Utah; May 10 hearing was held in Lyons, N.Y., and Sodus Point, N.Y.