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v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9780815702979
Description
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)
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v. 3 : pbk ISBN 9780815704065
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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
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.
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v. 4 : pbk ISBN 9780815722847
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The mission of the Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects series is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing the key social and economic problems facing today's cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.
Volume four of the series introduces and examines thoroughly the concept of regional resilience, explaining how resilience can be promoted -or impeded -by regional characteristics and public policies. The authors illuminate how the walls that now segment metropolitan regions across political jurisdictions and across institutions -and the gaps that separate federal laws from regional realities -have to be bridged in order for regions to cultivate resilience.
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v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9780815786016
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The goal of this book, the first in a series, is to bring policymakers, practitioners, and scholars up to speed on the state of knowledge on various aspects of urban and regional policy. What do we know about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, or experiments on key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas? What can we say about what works, what doesn't, and why? And what does this knowledge and experience imply for future policy questions? The authors take a fresh look at several different issues (e.g., economic development, education, land use) and conceptualize how each should be thought of. Once the contributors have presented the essence of what is known, as well as the likely implications, they identify the knowledge gaps that need to be filled for the successful formulation and implementation of urban and regional policy.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction2. "Eds & Meds" and Metropolitan Economic Development3. Low-Income Homeownership as an Asset-Building Tool4. Tax and Expenditure Limitations and Their Effects on Local Finances and Urban Areas5. Preschool Education and Human Capital Development in Central Cities6. Can Economically Integrated Neighborhoods Improve Children's Educational Outcomes?7. Spatial Development and Energy Consumption
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