Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects
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Brookings Institution Press · Print & ebook · November 5, 2010
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- Who it’s for
- Chapters examine policy responses to metropolitan challenges and identify gaps relevant to successful implementation.
- Genres
- Cities & Urban Planning, Urban & Regional Economics, Regional Policy
- Published
- Brookings Institution Press, November 5, 2010
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Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, the third 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 five key policy challenges that most metropolitan areas and local communities face: ? Creating quality neighborhoods for families ?
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Governing effectively ? Building human capital ? Growing the middle class ? Enlarging a competitive economy through industry-based strategies ? Managing the spatial pattern of metropolitan growth and development Each chapter discusses a specific topic under one of these challenges. The authors present the essence of what is known, as well as its likely applications, and identify the knowledge gaps that need to be filled for the successful formulation and implementation of urban and regional policy.
Metropolitan Policy Challenges
Chapters examine policy responses to metropolitan challenges and identify gaps relevant to successful implementation.
Come here for
- Policy responses to metropolitan social and economic challenges
- What is known, likely applications, and knowledge gaps
Expect
- Topics include quality neighborhoods, governance, human capital, and middle-class growth
- Industry-based economic strategies and metropolitan growth patterns
Where it sits
| Cities & Urban Planning | 71% |
|---|---|
| Regional Policy | 44% |
| Urban & Regional Economics | 34% |
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Publisher categories
- Urban & Regional Economics
- Cities & Urban Planning
- Local Government
- Authors
- Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial, Harold Wolman
- Publisher
- Brookings Institution Press
- Published
- November 5, 2010
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Urban & Regional Economics