"Banking's in turmoil. Textiles are gone. What must
we do to survive and thrive? In 1995, the Peirce Report examined life
here. Urban writers Neal Peirce, Curtis Johnson and Alex Marshall have
returned, and they offer this advice: Go green."
That article and more, in the recently published Citistates Report (followup to the 1995 Pierce Report, archived at http://www.ui.uncc.edu/)