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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808428303321

Titolo

Regions that work [[electronic resource] ] : how cities and suburbs can grow together / / Manuel Pastor, Jr. ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8166-6242-8

0-8166-9022-7

0-8166-5302-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Globalization and community ; ; v. 6

Altri autori (Persone)

PastorManuel <1956->

Disciplina

307.76/09794//94

Soggetti

City planning - California - Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Regional planning - California - Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Urban policy - California - Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Suburbs - California - Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.) Economic policy

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.) Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-253) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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