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The completely reedited second edition of this book reflects recent advances and adds insightful new material. The book analyzes regional economic performance and change, and discusses how analysis integrates with strategies for local and regional economic development policy and planning. The aim is to provide the reader with an account of quantitative and qualitative approaches to regional economic analysis, and of old and new strategic frameworks for formulating regional economic development planning.
Considers. S.J. Res. 64, to establish a Commission on Balanced Economic Development. S. 1602, to establish a Northwest Regional Services Corp. to operate public vocational and recreational education and training programs on the site of Glasgow Air Force Base, Mont., after its decommission by DOD.
Considers S. 2701, to establish the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future to examine problems of population growth and their implications. Includes. a. Extracts from Hearings on S.J. Res. 64 (p. 26-119). b. Report of the President's Committee on Population and Family Planning "Population and Family Planning -- The Transition from Concern to Action," Nov. 1968 (p. 155-197).
Recent US economic history is rife with examples of cities and regions that have experienced significant decline. Many of those localities began to slide after decades, even generations, of feeling immune to economic disaster. Boeing and Kodak, the steel industry in Pittsburg, and the automotive industry in Detroit all expected to make it golden into the distant future. Tapping into the available body of knowledge as well as- through nearly 70 interviews—the experiences of those who lived and worked in those times in cities around the United States—to identify the most effective strategies, Reinventing Local and Regional Economies delineates the dos and don’ts to observe in order to su...