American Cities: Their Methods of Business

American Cities: Their Methods of Business
ISBN-10
1330030907
ISBN-13
9781330030905
Series
American Cities
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
263
Language
English
Published
2015-06-04
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
Arthur Benson Gilbert

Description

Excerpt from American Cities: Their Methods of Business The improvement of the means of communication between different parts of the nation and between nations, has developed a strong competition between cities as a whole rather than simply between the citizens of different cities. More and more business fails or succeeds because of the city which harbors it. Where a man takes goods to the market, he takes with him his city with its good and bad influences. The city conditions under which he has prepared his goods for the market may make him successful over others or they may bring defeat. The great problem of city promotion is just this new need to make the city an efficient partner with its business rather than an undirected force acting on that business. That problem is to make use of the city with its multitude of possibilities in what H. G. Wells calls "the every day drama of human getting." But business success, of course, is no more the whole field of city promotion than the individual income is the whole problem of the individual. Every science and art has a relation to city development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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