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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809845903321

Titolo

Urban and regional policy and its effects . Volume 1 / / Margery Austin Turner, Howard Wial, Harold Wolman, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-13140-0

9786612131400

0-8157-0158-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TurnerMargery Austin <1955->

WialHoward

WolmanHarold

Disciplina

338.973009173/2

Soggetti

Urban policy

Urban economics

Urban renewal

Regional planning

City planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Contains papers originally presented at conference held at the Brookings Institution, March 29-30, 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Margery Austin Turner, Howard Wial, and Harold Wolman -- "Eds and meds" and metropolitan economic development / Timothy J. Bartik and George Erickcek -- Low-income homeownership as an asset-building tool : what can we tell policymakers? / George C. Galster and Anna M. Santiago -- Tax and expenditure limitations and their effects on local finances and urban areas / David Brunori ... [et al.] -- Preschool education and human capital development in central cities / Clive Belfield -- Can economically integrated neighborhoods improve children's educational outcomes? / Ingrid Gould Ellen, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Leanna Stiefel -- Spatial development and energy consumption / Elena Safirova, Sebastien Houde, and Winston Harrington.

Sommario/riassunto

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.

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