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This book offers insights into the process and the practice of
local economic development. Bridging the gap between theory and
practice it demonstrates the relevance of theory to inform local
strategic planning in the context of widespread disparities in
regional economic performance. The book summarizes the core
theories of economic development, applies each of these to
professional practice, and provides detailed commentary on them.
This updated second edition includes more recent contributions -
regional innovation, agglomeration and dynamic theories – and
presents the major ideas that inform economic development strategic
planning, particularly in the United States and Canada. The text
offers theoretical insights that help explain why some regions
thrive while others languish and why metropolitan economies often
rise and fall over time. Without theory, economic developers can
only do what is politically feasible. This text, however, provides
them with a logical tool for thinking about development and
establishing an independent basis from which to build the local
consensus needed for evidence-based action undertaken in the public
interest. Offering valuable perspectives on both the process and
the practice of local and regional economic development, this book
will be useful for both current and future economic developers to
think more profoundly and confidently about their local economy.
This book offers insights into the process and the practice of
local economic development. Bridging the gap between theory and
practice it demonstrates the relevance of theory to inform local
strategic planning in the context of widespread disparities in
regional economic performance. The book summarizes the core
theories of economic development, applies each of these to
professional practice, and provides detailed commentary on them.
This updated second edition includes more recent contributions -
regional innovation, agglomeration and dynamic theories - and
presents the major ideas that inform economic development strategic
planning, particularly in the United States and Canada. The text
offers theoretical insights that help explain why some regions
thrive while others languish and why metropolitan economies often
rise and fall over time. Without theory, economic developers can
only do what is politically feasible. This text, however, provides
them with a logical tool for thinking about development and
establishing an independent basis from which to build the local
consensus needed for evidence-based action undertaken in the public
interest. Offering valuable perspectives on both the process and
the practice of local and regional economic development, this book
will be useful for both current and future economic developers to
think more profoundly and confidently about their local economy.
The environment that we construct affects both humans and our
natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create
healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places
already built. However, there has been little awareness of the
adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive
benefits of well designed built environments.
This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking
"Urban Sprawl and Public Health," published in 2004. That book
sparked a range of inquiries into the connections between
constructed environments, particularly cities and suburbs, and the
health of residents, especially humans. Since then, numerous
studies have extended and refined the book's research and
reporting. "Making Healthy Places" offers a fresh and comprehensive
look at this vital subject today.
There is no other book with the depth, breadth, vision, and
accessibility that this book offers. In addition to being of
particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students in
public health and urban planning, it will be essential reading for
public health officials, planners, architects, landscape
architects, environmentalists, and all those who care about the
design of their communities.
Like a well-trained doctor, " Making Healthy Places" presents a
diagnosis of-and offers treatment for-problems related to the built
environment. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, with
contributions from experts in a range of fields, it imparts a
wealth of practical information, with an emphasis on demonstrated
and promising solutions to commonly occurring problems.
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