ABSTRACT
Much is known about efforts at physically restructuring cities and the role of business and other actors in that process (Lauria et al. 1995). However, much less is known about investment in human capital. As Norton E. Long once observed,
It seems scarcely credible that, after all the funds that have been spent on planning, cities should still lack an inventory of its human resources. Such, however, is the case. The city knows far more about the conditions of its physical structures than it does about the capabilities … of its people (Long 1972: 162).
