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Regions that work : how cities and suburbs can grow together / Manuel Pastor, Jr. ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Globalization and community ; v. 6.
- Globalization and community ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
- City planning.
- Regional planning--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
- Regional planning.
- Urban policy--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
- Urban policy.
- Suburbs--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
- Suburbs.
- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.)--Economic policy.
- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.).
- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.)--Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Regions That Work provides a history and critique of community-development corporations, a statistical analysis of the poverty-growth relationship in seventy-four metro areas, a detailed study of three regions that have produced superior equity outcomes, and a provocative call for new policies and new politics.""A remarkable and timely book. . . . Must reading."" William Julius Wilson
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. The New Regionalism and the New Community Building; 2. When Work Doesn't Pay: Poverty and Employment in Los Angeles; 3. Disconnected Futures: Regional Strategies and Urban Revitalization in Los Angeles; 4. Community Builders and Concentrated Poverty: Making the Regional Connection; 5. Only as Strong as the Team: Poverty, Equity, and Regional Growth; 6. Regions That Work: Growth, Equity, and Policy in High-Performing Metropolitan Areas; 7. Growing Together: Policies for Regional Prosperity and Equity; Appendix A: Neighborhood Profiles
- Appendix B: Data Sources and Strategies for Chapters 5 and 6Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816662425
- 0816662428
- 9780816690220
- 0816690227
- 9780816653027
- 081665302X
- OCLC:
- 476094851
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