Retooling for growth building a 21st century economy in America's older industrial areas /

"Offers achievable strategies for revitalizing industrial areas and building upon the potential of overlooked resources of economic, physical, and cultural significance. Addresses such challenges as fostering entrepreneurship, reducing poverty and inequality, and augmenting the number of skille...

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Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: McGahey, Richard., Vey, Jennifer S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.
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Summary:"Offers achievable strategies for revitalizing industrial areas and building upon the potential of overlooked resources of economic, physical, and cultural significance. Addresses such challenges as fostering entrepreneurship, reducing poverty and inequality, and augmenting the number of skilled professionals. Provides analysis of healthy economic development practices for public and private sectors"--Provided by publisher.
Item Description:"Published in association with The American Assembly, Columbia University."
Physical Description:xv, 437 p. : ill., map.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.