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

Publisher's description: Brings policymakers, practitioners, and scholars up to speed on the state of knowledge on urban and regional policy issues. Conceptualizes fresh thinking of different aspects (economic development, education, land use), presenting main themes and implications and identi...

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Corporate Author: Brookings Institution
Other Authors: Turner, Margery Austin, 1955-, Wial, Howard, Wolman, Harold, Pindus, Nancy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2008-<©2009>
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Table of Contents:
  • V. 1.: Introduction / Margery Austin Turner, Howard Wial, Harold Wolman
  • "Eds and meds" and metropolitan economic development / Timothy J. Bartik, George Erickcek
  • Low-income homeownership as an asset-building tool : what can we tell policymakers? / George C. Galster, 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, Leanna Stiefel
  • Spatial development and energy consumption / Elena Safirova, Sébastien Houde, Winston Harrington.
  • V. 2.: Introduction / Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial, Harold Wolman
  • Retail trade as a route to neighborhood revitalization / Karen Chapple, Rick Jacobus
  • Correlates of mayoral takeovers in city school systems / Jeffrey R. Henig, 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, Michael H. Belzer
  • How might inclusionary zoning affect urban form? / Rolf Pendall.