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Unlike Detroit, Chicago’s diversified industrial base has helped it to successfully switch from a material to a knowledge economy.
Unlike Detroit, Chicago’s diversified industrial base has helped it to successfully switch from a material to a knowledge economy.
In recent decades, some cities with a strong history of manufacturing have been able to make the switch to a strong knowledge economy, and thus have maintained a relative level of economic prosperity in the current economic climate. In the wake of the city of Detroit’s filing for bankruptcy, Saskia Sassen looks at how a city that was once economically […]