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Roads To Prosperity - Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities (Paperback)
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Roads To Prosperity - Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities (Paperback)
Series: Great Lakes Books Series
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Explores popular economic development strategies in midsize
Canadian urban areas. Roads to Prosperity: Economic Development
Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities explores the relative
prosperity of midsize Canadian urban areas (population 50,000 to
400,000) over the past two decades. Communities throughout North
America have strived for decades to maintain and enhance the
prosperity of their residents. In the areas that are the focus of
this research, the results of these efforts have been mixed-some
communities have been relatively successful while others have
fallen further behind the national averages. Midsize cities often
lack the resources, both internal and external, to sustain and
enhance their prosperity. Policies and strategies that have been
successful in larger urban areas may be less effective (or
unaffordable) in smaller ones. Roads to Prosperity first examines
the economic structure of forty-two Canadian urban regions that
fall within the midsize range to determine the economic
specializations that characterize these communities and to trace
how these specializations have evolved over the time period between
1991 and 2011. While urban areas with an economic base of natural
resource or manufacturing industries tend to retain this economic
function over the years, communities that rely on the service
industries have been much more likely to experience some degree of
restructuring in their economies over the past twenty years. The
second part of the book looks at a number of currently popular
economic development strategies as they have been applied to
midsize urban areas and their success and failures. While there
appears to be no single economic development strategy that will
lead to greater prosperity for every community, Sands and Reese
explore the various factors that help explain why some work and
others don't.
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