Product Description: Since the appearance of the first edition in 1990, Planning Local Economic Development has been the foundation for an entire generation of practitioners and academics working in planning and policy development. Written by authors with years of academic, regional, and city planning experience, the book has been used widely in graduate economic development, urban studies, nonprofit management, and public administration courses...read more

Product Description: Book for Emergency Services and Post Disaster Managers

This book guides the reader through the steps of securing the funds necessary to meet community needs for cost effective services and facilities. It examines the fundamentals of financing local economic development from the perspectives of both the private and public sector. It shows how to link public community funding and private marketplace funding and describes how private development can incorporate community programs as an asset to a development project or programs. The book includes numerous examples, eight real-world cases, a glossary of terms, and a model local economical development business plan. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Gated communities are a new "hot button" in many North American cities. From Boston to Los Angeles and from Miami to Toronto citizens are taking sides in the debate over whether any neighborhood should be walled and gated, preventing intrusion or inspection by outsiders...read more

Product Description: "Economic and political forces no longer combat poverty - they generate poverty!" exclaim William Goldsmith and Edward Blakely in their report on the plight of American's urban poor. Focusing on the reality of separation - social segmentation, economic inequality, and geographic isolation - the authors examine the presence and persistence of urban poverty, the transformation of national industry into a global economy, and the dilemmas of local reform...read more