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The local industry mix provides the conventional framework within which a city's economic position and prospects are evaluated and its redevelopment is planned. The industrial approach has been complemented here with an occupational-functional approach that measures the comparative advantage—competitive position—of a given urban area along five broad paths of economic development: entrepreneurship, central management, research and development, precision operations, and routine operations. Looking beyond the products a city makes to the roles it plays and the skills it performs shifts the emphasis from the immediate fortunes of a given industry and the direct flow of current income to the long-run power and potential of local resources, especially human resources. This new perspective is also more sensitive to state and local public policy, and illustrations are provided of the ways in which educational and other strategies have been used implicitly and could be planned more explicitly to guide cities through these most difficult years of industrial transition.

Reviewed in this essay:Han Meyer City and Port: Urban Planning as a Cultural Venture in London, Barcelona, New York, and Rotterdam. Changing Relations between Public Urban Space and Large Scale InfrastructureRichard Marshall (ed.) Waterfronts in Post‐Industrial CitiesRaymond W. Gastil Beyond the Edge: New York's New Waterfront

Books reviewed in this article:Borden, Iain, Joe Kerr and Jane Rendell (eds.) with Alicia Pivaro The unknown city: contesting architecture and social spaceCoutard, Olivier (ed.) The governance of large technical systemsEasterling, Keller Organization space: landscapes, highways, and houses in AmericaMelosi, Martin V. The sanitary city: urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present