Reddit reviews The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
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Great book on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/New-Localism-Cities-Thrive-Populism/dp/0815731647 about how/why some cities thrive yet others don't.
The book compares Ytown to Pittsburgh and cites a study that in Ytown all the old money/people with power/elites were in one specific civic group: The Garden Club. Hard to build trust with other groups when everyone is siloed.
In Pittsburgh the elites were spread out, sprinkled among many.
When it came time to build a consensus and pressure local civic and political leaders to do so, it was easy to build one and coalesce as everyone knew everyone. Trust was already established.