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Urban and regional policy and its effects Volume 2 / Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial, Harold Wolman, editors.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Wial, Howard.
Wolman, Harold.
Pindus, Nancy.
Brookings Institution.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Urban policy--Congresses.
Urban policy.
Urban economics--Congresses.
Urban economics.
Urban renewal--Congresses.
Urban renewal.
Regional planning--Congresses.
Regional planning.
City planning--Congresses.
City planning.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (281 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, the second in a series, sets out to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas. The chapters analyze responses to six key policy challenges that most metropolitans areas and local communities face: Creating quality neighborhoods for families; Governing effectively; Building human capital; Growing the middle class; Growing a competitive economy through industry-based strategies; Managing the spatial pattern of metropolitan growth and development. Each chapter discusses a specific policy topic under one of these challenges. The authors present the essence of what is known, as well as the likely implications, and identify the knowledge gaps that need to be filled for the successful formulation and implementation of urban and regional policy. Contributors: Karen Chapple and Rick Jacobus (University of California, Berkeley and Burlington Associates), Jeffrey R. Henig and Elisabeth Thurston Fraser (Teachers College, Columbia University), W. Norton Grubb (University of California, Berkeley), Harry J. Holzer (Georgetown University and Urban Institute), Susan Christopherson and Michael H. Belzer (Cornell University and Wayne State University), and Rolf Pendall (Cornell University).
Contents:
Introduction / Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial, and Harold Wolman
Retail trade as a route to neighborhood revitalization / Karen Chapple and Rick Jacobus
Correlates of mayoral takeovers in city school systems / Jeffrey R. Henig and Elisabeth Thurston Fraser
The education gospel and the metropolis : the multiple roles of community colleges in workforce and economic development / W. Norton Grubb
Living wage laws : how much do (can) they matter? / Harry J. Holzer
The next move : metropolitan regions and the transformation of the freight transport and distribution system / Susan Christopherson and Michael H. Belzer
How might inclusionary zoning affect urban form? / Rolf Pendall.
Notes:
Contains papers originally presented at conferences held at the Urban Institute, June 5-6, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786612403576
9781282403574
1282403575
9780815703761
0815703767
OCLC:
781264768

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