Gerald L. Gordon

Understanding Community Economic Growth and Decline

Strategies for Sustainable Development

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a fully comprehensive look at what all communities-large and small, urban and rural-can do to grow and sustain their local economic bases. It examines the causes of economic decline for localities as well as the economic "product" being marketed to employers, the process of growth, and the means of sustaining economic growth over time. Drawing on the experiences of hundreds of communities and hundreds of leaders around the United States, Understanding Community Economic Growth and Decline outlines the various strategies that have or have not worked to enable or support a general local economic recovery. Exploring many facets of growth and re-growth following periods of economic decline, and offering practical, real-life tactics that have been successfully employed in local and regional economies across the US, this book is required reading for community planners and administrators, those currently working in public administration, and students studying regional planning or economic development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781032095301
• ISBN-10: 103209530X
• Artikelnr.: 62151365

Autorenporträt

Gerald L. Gordon is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Economic Development Authority in Fairfax County, Virginia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1. An Examination of Existing Theories of Community
Economic Growth and Decline 1. Competing Theories of Community Economic
Growth and Decline 2. A Brief History of Economic Growth and Decline 3.
Growth versus Development 4. In Search of a New Understanding Part 2. Why
Local Economies Must Grow: Causes of Increasing Demand 5. Economic Stasis:
"We Don't Want to Grow; We Want to Stand Still" 6. Global Forces on Local
Economies 7. National and State Forces That Impact Local Economies 8.
Over-Dependence on a Single Companies or Single Industries: Case Studies
Part 3. The Impacts of Insufficient Local Economic Growth 9. Impacts on the
Secondary and Tertiary Economies 10. Reaction Times and Waiting Until it is
Too Late 11. Community and Citizen Responses Part 4. Enhancing the Local
"Product" 12. Preparing and Selling the Product 13. Physical Requisites for
Economic Development 14. Matching Communities to Optimal Business
Development 15. Institutional Growth and Economic Development 16. Building
Amenities to Drive Growth 17. Rural Communities and Small Town Economic
Development Part 5. The Process: Initiating and Sustaining Local Economic
Growth 18. Vision, Planning, and Selling the Plan 19. The Timing of the
Process 20. Team-Building, Budgeting, and Professionalism 21. Creating
Strategic Alliances for Growth 22. Image, Awareness, and Selling
Communities for Employers 23. Managing Internal Expectations 24. Managing
Inter-Jurisdictional Relationships 25. Business Incubation and
Entrepreneurialism as an Economic Growth Generator and State Development
Programs Part 6. Conclusions and Actions/Recommendations 26. Preparing
Communities for Economic Development 27. Conclusions