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Urban And Rural America Policies For Future Growth
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Author :United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :208 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Urban and Rural America: Policies for Future Growth by : United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Download or read book Urban and Rural America: Policies for Future Growth written by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Brighter Future for Rural America? by : DeWitt John
Download or read book A Brighter Future for Rural America? written by DeWitt John and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book outlines the competitive challenge facing rural America and reports on signs of hope for the rural economy. It reports the "secrets of success" in sixteen rural counties in the Farm Belt which have gained employment at the same time that most rural areasl are losing jobs. It also describes new state initiatives to help rural communities and lists six "operating principles" to guide state efforts." From foreward.
Book Synopsis The Development of Rural America by :
Download or read book The Development of Rural America written by and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, rural development emerged as one of the prominent challenges facing the United States. Strong support for rural development is now found in both major political parties and at federal, state, and local levels. There is little doubt that the development of rural America will become even more important in the future. Despite unprecedented growth, both urban and rural areas in the United States are greatly deficient in many aspects of quality living conditions. The nation’s cities are slowly strangling themselves, jamming together people and industry while spawning pollution, transportation paralysis, housing blight, lack of privacy, and a crime-infested society. Rural areas simultaneously suffer from the other extreme: lack of sufficient employment opportunities, outmigration and depopulation, and too few people to support services and institutions. The migration from rural areas contributes to the problems of both the city and countryside depopulating rural places at the expense of overcrowded cities. This book focuses on rural development processes, problems, and solutions. Seven prominent specialists in the field, including agricultural and regional economists, demographers, and administrators, discuss the development of the open country, small towns, and smaller cities (up t fifty thousand population). They present an integrated approach to rural development problems, not a mere collection of readings. Valuable guidelines for policies to benefit both rural and urban areas are provided. Since rural development involves interdisciplinary scholarship, this book will be of interest to a wide range of social scientists working in rural areas both here and abroad. Economists, sociologists, and political scientists, as well as community leaders and planners, legislators, government officials and interested laymen, will find this volume useful in understanding the rural development effort. Chapters on the following topics are included: the Philosophy and Process of Community Development; The Emergence of Area Development; Demographic Trends of the U.S. Rural Population; The Conditions and Problems of Nonmetropolitan America; Systems Planning for rural Development; Use of Natural Resources in Community Development; and Rural Poverty and Urban Growth, An Economic Critique of Alternative Spatial Growth Patterns
Book Synopsis The High-Tech Potential by : Amy K. Glasmeier
Download or read book The High-Tech Potential written by Amy K. Glasmeier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural America is at a crossroads in its economic development. Like regions of other First World nations, the traditional economic base of rural communities in the United States is rapidly deteriorating. Natural resources, including agriculture, show little prospect for generating future job growth, and manufacturing has become a new source of instability. Faced with these changes and an increasing vulnerability to international economic events, rural communities have begun to seek high-technology industries and advanced services as candidates for job growth and economic stability. What is the potential for high-tech growth outside the largest cities? What is the role of high-tech industry in the economic development of non-metropolitan America? This book provides a hard-nosed look at the high-tech potential in rural economic development. Some of the questions Glasmeier addresses include: Are rural areas attractive to high tech? Will high tech follow earlier patterns and filter down the lowest-paid jobs to rural areas? Will rural communities be bypassed completely for even lower-wage Third World locations? Glasmeier answers in a sober analysis that separates fact from myth. Empirical data reveals the kinds of high-tech jobs that locate in rural areas, and the kinds of rural areas that attract high-tech jobs. This analysis leads to a highly critical evaluation of state and local economic development policy and recommendations for its improvement. This book is a must for policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and an informed public interested in the promise of high tech and the future of US economic development.
Book Synopsis The Future Of Rural America by : Kenneth Pigg
Download or read book The Future Of Rural America written by Kenneth Pigg and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1991-08-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Population Change and the Future of Rural America by :
Download or read book Population Change and the Future of Rural America written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rural America at the Crossroads by :
Download or read book Rural America at the Crossroads written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century by : David L. Brown
Download or read book Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century written by David L. Brown and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century was one of profound transformation in rural America. Demographic shifts and economic restructuring have conspired to alter dramatically the lives of rural people and their communities. Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century defines these changes and interprets their implications for the future of rural America. The volume follows in the tradition of "decennial volumes" co-edited by presidents of the Rural Sociological Society and published in the Society's Rural Studies Series. Essays have been specially commissioned to examine key aspects of public policy relevant to rural America in the new century. Contributors include:Lionel Beaulieu, Alessandro Bonnano, David Brown, Ralph Brown, Frederick Buttel, Ted Bradshaw, Douglas Constance, Steve Daniels, Lynn England, William Falk, Cornelia Flora, Jan Flora, Glenn Fuguitt, Nina Glasgow, Leland Glenna, Angela Gonzales, Gary Green, Rosalind Harris, Tom Hirschl, Douglas Jackson-Smith, Leif Jensen, Ken Johnson, Richard Krannich, Daniel Lichter, Linda Lobao, Al Luloff, Tom Lyson, Kate MacTavish, David McGranahan, Diane McLaughlin, Philip McMichael, Lois Wright Morton, Domenico Parisi, Peggy Petrzelka, Kenneth Pigg, Rogelio Saenz, Sonya Salamon, Jeff Sharp, Curtis Stofferahn, Louis Swanson, Ann Tickameyer, Leanne Tigges, Cruz Torres, Mildred Warner, Ronald Wimberley, Dreamal Worthen, and Julie Zimmerman.
Book Synopsis Economic Restructuring and Family Well-being in Rural America by : Kristin E. Smith
Download or read book Economic Restructuring and Family Well-being in Rural America written by Kristin E. Smith and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compilation of policy-relevant research by a multidisciplinary group of scholars on the state of families in rural America in the twenty-first century. Examines the impact of economic restructuring on rural Americans and provides policy recommendations for addressing the challenges they face"--Provided by publisher.
Author :Center for the Study of Rural America Publisher :University Press of the Pacific ISBN 13 :9781410214768 Total Pages :164 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (147 download)
Book Synopsis The New Power of Regions by : Center for the Study of Rural America
Download or read book The New Power of Regions written by Center for the Study of Rural America and published by University Press of the Pacific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regions are a critical way for rural America to seize new economic opportunities. Economic experts increasingly agree that rural America's most exciting economic opportunities require some level of critical mass, often built through regional partnerships. Advanced manufacturing, for example, holds great promise for boosting rural economic growth, but seizing this potential depends on building manufacturing clusters through increased cooperation among firms, community colleges, and other public agencies. How can public policy encourage these regional synergies? The New Power of Regions: A Policy Focus for Rural America brought together rural leaders and experts from throughout the nation to examine how new regions are forming in rural America and what policies help forge new partnerships. The conference was hosted by the Center for Study of Rural America, in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, in May, 2002. Conference participants were quite upbeat about rural America's new frontier of opportunity, but they were even more convinced that such opportunities will develop only with new models of partnering - across businesses and governments. We trust that these proceedings will help to inform the renewed dialogue on policies that help rural America build a brighter economic future.
Book Synopsis Rural Housing, Exurbanization, and Amenity-Driven Development by : Mark Lapping
Download or read book Rural Housing, Exurbanization, and Amenity-Driven Development written by Mark Lapping and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural America is progressing through a dramatic and sustained post-industrial economic transition. For many, traditional means of household sustenance gained through agriculture, mining and rustic tourism are giving way to large scale corporate agriculture, footloose and globally competitive manufacturing firms, and mass tourism on an unprecedented scale. These changes have brought about an increased presence of affluent amenity migrants and returnees, as well as growing reliance on low-wage, seasonal jobs to sustain rural household incomes. This book argues that the character of rural housing reflects this transition and examines this using contemporary concepts of exurbanization, rural amenity-based development, and comparative distributional descriptions of the "haves" and the "have nots". Despite rapid in-migration and dramatic changes in land use, there remains a strong tendency for communities in rural America to maintain the idyllic small-town myth of large-lot, single-family home-ownership. This neglects to take into account the growing need for affordable housing (both owner-occupied and rental properties) for local residents and seasonal workers. This book suggests that greater emphasis be placed in rural housing policies that account for this rapid social and economic change and the need for affordable rural housing alternatives.
Author :Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment Publisher :DIANE Publishing ISBN 13 :1428921664 Total Pages :196 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (289 download)
Book Synopsis Rural America at the Crossroads by : Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment
Download or read book Rural America at the Crossroads written by Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the role that communications technologies can play in securing rural America's future. It develops several policy strategies and options to encourage economic development. The study was requested by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress and Senators Charles E. Grassley and Orrin G. Hatch. Chapter 1 provides a summary and policy conclusions. Chapter 2, "The Challenge for Rural America," describes unemployment, poverty, and out-migration and advocates upgrading the labor force. Chapter 3, "Rural America and the Changing Communication Infrastructure," proposes Rural Area Networks to deliver communication services to rural areas. Chapter 4, "Rural Development," explains a holistical approach to rural development that accompanies economic development by improving education, health care, and public administration capacities. Chapter 5, "Regulation and Rural Development," recommends that regulators must develop new regulatory approaches for rural areas. Finally, Chapter 6, "The Role of the Federal Government: Orchestrating Cooperation and Change," suggests that the Federal Government make rural development and the use of communications technologies a national priority. The appendix is a field journal that gives narrative impressions of the four states visited during the study: Kentucky, New Mexico, Washington, and Maine. The document contains a list of contributors, a glossary, and an index, as well as numerous figures, charts, tables, and photographs. (KS)
Book Synopsis Beyond Agriculture by : Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Download or read book Beyond Agriculture written by Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and published by . This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural America has always played a vital role in our country?s economic strength. But today, as we continue to enjoy our longest economic expansion ever, we must acknowledge that not all of rural America has been able to take part in this unprecedented run of prosperity. It is becoming increasingly clear that many Main Streets across rural America must reset their sights. To prosper in the future, they must acquire new skills, new strengths, and new connections with an emerging digital economy."Beyond Agriculture: New Policies for Rural America" explores the challenges facing the rural economy and highlights the economic development issues that are becoming so crucial to the future of rural America.
Book Synopsis Strengthening the Rural Economy by : Christina Romer
Download or read book Strengthening the Rural Economy written by Christina Romer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural areas are home to about 50 million Americans and are an essential part of the overall economy. This report surveys the current state of rural America and describes the Obama Administration¿s policies for strengthening the rural economy. Many of these policies are already being implemented through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. But further work remains to ensure the prosperity and vitality of rural America. Contents: Introduction; The Current State of Rural America; Growing New Businesses in Rural America; Strengthening Rural Infrastructure; Improving America¿s Support of Agriculture; Investing in the Education and Health of Rural Communities; Conclusion. Charts and tables.
Book Synopsis The Future of Rural America by : Kenneth Pigg
Download or read book The Future of Rural America written by Kenneth Pigg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been my pleasure to work with a distinguished, committed, and cooperative group of contributors to this volume. They have taught me how to perform the editing role and put up with innumerable and probably insufferable suggestions. I have been privileged to work with exceptionally fine individuals in this endeavor and will count that among my many blessings
Book Synopsis Urbanization, Urban Sustainability and the Future of Cities by : B. Bhattacharya
Download or read book Urbanization, Urban Sustainability and the Future of Cities written by B. Bhattacharya and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rural and Small Town America by : Glenn V. Fuguitt
Download or read book Rural and Small Town America written by Glenn V. Fuguitt and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1989-11-21 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important differences persist between rural and urban America, despite profound economic changes and the notorious homogenizing influence of the media. As Glenn V. Fuguitt, David L. Brown, and Calvin L. Beale show in Rural and Small Town America, the much-heralded disappearance of small town life has not come to pass, and the nonmetropolitan population still constitutes a significant dimension of our nation's social structure. Based on census and other recent survey data, this impressive study provides a detailed and comparative picture of rural America. The authors find that size of place is a critical demographic factor, affecting population composition (rural populations are older and more predominantly male than urban populations), the distribution of poverty (urban poverty tends to be concentrated in neighborhoods; rural poverty may extend over large blocks of counties), and employment opportunities (job quality and income are lower in rural areas, though rural occupational patterns are converging with those of urban areas). In general, rural and small town America still lags behind urban America on many indicators of social well-being. Pointing out that rural life is no longer synonymous with farming, the authors explore variations among nonmetropolitan populations. They also trace the impact of major national trends—the nonmetropolitan growth spurt of the 1970s and its current reversal, for example, or changing fertility rates—on rural life and on the relationship between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan communities. By describing the special characteristics and needs of rural populations as well as the features they share with urban America, this book clearly demonstrates that a more accurate picture of nonmetropolitan life is essential to understanding the larger dynamics of our society. A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Census Series
