Sources of Metropolitan Growth

Here is the most up-to-date assessment of the strategies, tools, and requirements for stimulating economic growth and metropolitan development. In twelve chapters, the most eminent scholars in the field provide a no-nonsense review of what works - and what doesn't - in generating economic development. What are the potential and the reality of producer services, suburban business centers, enterprise zones, technology-based ventures, and industrial incubators? How can economic development policy improve the incubator effect? Is there a nationwide venture capital network? What are the locational requirements of firms in high-growth industries? And what are the consequences of failed growth?
This book, developed as part of an ongoing research program on economic development issues by NCI Research in Evanston, Illinois, is must reading for policymakers, planners, analysts, and students confronting the complex challenges of metropolitan growth and economic development.

-[A] timely addition to our knowledge . . . - --Journal of Policy Analysis and Management -The need to understand metropolitan growth is unquestioned among regional economists, geographers, and economic development policymakers and administrators, and this book has something important to say to all of them.- --R. A. Beauregard, Choice -This book is a collection of papers delivered at a symposium, -Sources of Metropolitan Growth and Development,- held in 1989 and jointly sponsored by the Economic Development Administration and NCI Research in Evanston, Illinois... Much of the research presented here was designed to learn more about the mechanics of metropolitan growth to inform the formulation of economic development policy... Sources of Metropolitan Growth is readily accessible to the reader who does not have a strong economic and mathematical background... The planner who wants to do some serious strategic thinking about economic development will find that the entire volume is well worth reading.- --John Levy, Journal of the American Planning Association -This book is a far-reaching analysis of metropolitan growth trends and techniques used to generate economic development in the United States... [I]t focuses on the nature of ongoing industrial and service restructuring and the range of facilitative growth tools presently being used by planners/public officials... The book is nicely structured: it begins with the theory that informs the studies and ends with social problems and policy implications associated with the topic... [I] found it to be quite informative and interesting. The chapters are filled with fresh insights... Researchers and teachers can benefit from this book. It is sufficiently detailed and easy to read to appeal to a wide audience. It provides policy analysts with the most up-to-date studies on tools and trends related to economic growth.- --David Wilson, Professional Geographer -The declared goal of this edited collection is to present policymakers and researchers with the latest information on what makes cities grow... It does... have value as readings for a senior urban planning seminar or possibly geography or sociology seminars on urban growth and employment.- --Mark Ellis, Growth and Change -The material is still timely and very interesting. Mills and McDonald have woven the papers in this volume into coherent groups, and the papers examine the role of agglomeration economies in shaping the growth and restructuring of metropolitan areas. The topics follow a logical progression from conceptual underpinnings, to empirical applications, and then to policy-related issues in metropolitan areas. The first-rate paperes in the book make it a natural for adoption in courses on regional economics or economic development in metropolitan areas. Many of the papers are the best of their kind fount anywhere. The papers are not overly technical, so that technical as well as non-technical readers will appreciate the book.- --Michael Wasylenko, Journal of Regional Science -A wealth of solid research, provocative interpretations, and thoughtful policy recommendations.- --Environment & Planning A "[A] timely addition to our knowledge . . . " --Journal of Policy Analysis and Management "The need to understand metropolitan growth is unquestioned among regional economists, geographers, and economic development policymakers and administrators, and this book has something important to say to all of them." --R. A. Beauregard, Choice "This book is a collection of papers delivered at a symposium, "Sources of Metropolitan Growth and Development," held in 1989 and jointly sponsored by the Economic Development Administration and NCI Research in Evanston, Illinois... Much of the research presented here was designed to learn more about the mechanics of metropolitan growth to inform the formulation of economic development policy... Sources of Metropolitan Growth is readily accessible to the reader who does not have a strong economic and mathematical background... The planner who wants to do some serious strategic thinking about economic development will find that the entire volume is well worth reading." --John Levy, Journal of the American Planning Association "This book is a far-reaching analysis of metropolitan growth trends and techniques used to generate economic development in the United States... [I]t focuses on the nature of ongoing industrial and service restructuring and the range of facilitative growth tools presently being used by planners/public officials... The book is nicely structured: it begins with the theory that informs the studies and ends with social problems and policy implications associated with the topic... [I] found it to be quite informative and interesting. The chapters are filled with fresh insights... Researchers and teachers can benefit from this book. It is sufficiently detailed and easy to read to appeal to a wide audience. It provides policy analysts with the most up-to-date studies on tools and trends related to economic growth." --David Wilson, Professional Geographer "The declared goal of this edited collection is to present policymakers and researchers with the latest information on what makes cities grow... It does... have value as readings for a senior urban planning seminar or possibly geography or sociology seminars on urban growth and employment." --Mark Ellis, Growth and Change "The material is still timely and very interesting. Mills and McDonald have woven the papers in this volume into coherent groups, and the papers examine the role of agglomeration economies in shaping the growth and restructuring of metropolitan areas. The topics follow a logical progression from conceptual underpinnings, to empirical applications, and then to policy-related issues in metropolitan areas. The first-rate paperes in the book make it a natural for adoption in courses on regional economics or economic development in metropolitan areas. Many of the papers are the best of their kind fount anywhere. The papers are not overly technical, so that technical as well as non-technical readers will appreciate the book." --Michael Wasylenko, Journal of Regional Science "A wealth of solid research, provocative interpretations, and thoughtful policy recommendations." --Environment & Planning A "The need to understand metropolitan growth is unquestioned among regional economists, geographers, and economic development policymakers and administrators, and this book has something important to say to all of them." --R. A. Beauregard, Choice "This book is a collection of papers delivered at a symposium, "Sources of Metropolitan Growth and Development," held in 1989 and jointly sponsored by the Economic Development Administration and NCI Research in Evanston, Illinois... Much of the research presented here was designed to learn more about the mechanics of metropolitan growth to inform the formulation of economic development policy... Sources of Metropolitan Growth is readily accessible to the reader who does not have a strong economic and mathematical background... The planner who wants to do some serious strategic thinking about economic development will find that the entire volume is well worth reading." --John Levy, Journal of the American Planning Association "This book is a far-reaching analysis of metropolitan growth trends and techniques used to generate economic development in the United States... [I]t focuses on the nature of ongoing industrial and service restructuring and the range of facilitative growth tools presently being used by planners/public officials... The book is nicely structured: it begins with the theory that informs the studies and ends with social problems and policy implications associated with the topic... [I] found it to be quite informative and interesting. The chapters are filled with fresh insights... Researchers and teachers can benefit from this book. It is sufficiently detailed and easy to read to appeal to a wide audience. It provides policy analysts with the most up-to-date studies on tools and trends related to economic growth." --David Wilson, Professional Geographer "The declared goal of this edited collection is to present policymakers and researchers with the latest information on what makes cities grow... It does... have value as readings for a senior urban planning seminar or possibly geography or sociology seminars on urban growth and employment." --Mark Ellis, Growth and Change "The material is still timely and very interesting. Mills and McDonald have woven the papers in this volume into coherent groups, and the papers examine the role of agglomeration economies in shaping the growth and restructuring of metropolitan areas. The topics follow a logical progression from conceptual underpinnings, to empirical applications, and then to policy-related issues in metropolitan areas. The first-rate paperes in the book make it a natural for adoption in courses on regional economics or economic development in metropolitan areas. Many of the papers are the best of their kind fount anywhere. The papers are not overly technical, so that technical as well as non-technical readers will appreciate the book." --Michael Wasylenko, Journal of Regional Science "A wealth of solid research, provocative interpretations, and thoughtful policy recommendations." "--Environment "& "Planning A" "[A] timely addition to our knowledge . . . " --Journal of Policy Analysis and Management "[A] timely addition to our knowledge . . . "--Journal of Policy Analysis and Management "The need to understand metropolitan growth is unquestioned among regional economists, geographers, and economic development policymakers and administrators, and this book has something important to say to all of them."--R. A. Beauregard, Choice"The first-rate papers in the book make it a natural for adoption in courses on regional economics or economic development in metropolitan areas. Many of the papers are the best of their kind found anywhere.""--Journal of Regional Science""A wealth of solid research, provocative interpretations, and thoughtful policy recommendations.""--Environment "& "Planning A""The planner who wants to do some serious strategic thinking about economic development will find that the entire volume is well worth reading.""--Journal of the American Planning Association"