Spatial/Territorial Development Policies in the United States

Regional development policies in the United States are a complex web of (often poorly) integrated programs that stretch across a vast array of federal, state and local government agencies and that operate at different and often overlapping spatial scales. These programs have changed dramatically ove...

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Main Authors:	Hewings, Geoffery J.D., Feser, Edward, Poole, Ken
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:	World Development Report 2009
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9210

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spelling	okr-10986-92102021-04-23T14:02:44Z Spatial/Territorial Development Policies in the United States Hewings, Geoffery J.D. Feser, Edward Poole, Ken World Development Report 2009 Regional development policies in the United States are a complex web of (often poorly) integrated programs that stretch across a vast array of federal, state and local government agencies and that operate at different and often overlapping spatial scales. These programs have changed dramatically over the past three or four decades, largely in response to changes in spatial organization of production generated by public and private investment strategies adopted by firms exploring broader options in their location decision-making. Complementing these changes is an array of demand and supply pressures generated by globalization. As a consequence, different stages in the spatial development process in the US have called forth a different set of formal and hidden policies. Currently, the transformation to a new stage is moving rapidly although the degree of coordination across spatial governance regimes is often ad hoc at best. 2012-06-26T15:41:28Z 2012-06-26T15:41:28Z 2009 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9210 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Europe and Central Asia Latin America & Caribbean
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description	Regional development policies in the United States are a complex web of (often poorly) integrated programs that stretch across a vast array of federal, state and local government agencies and that operate at different and often overlapping spatial scales. These programs have changed dramatically over the past three or four decades, largely in response to changes in spatial organization of production generated by public and private investment strategies adopted by firms exploring broader options in their location decision-making. Complementing these changes is an array of demand and supply pressures generated by globalization. As a consequence, different stages in the spatial development process in the US have called forth a different set of formal and hidden policies. Currently, the transformation to a new stage is moving rapidly although the degree of coordination across spatial governance regimes is often ad hoc at best.
author	Hewings, Geoffery J.D. Feser, Edward Poole, Ken
author_facet	Hewings, Geoffery J.D. Feser, Edward Poole, Ken
author_sort	Hewings, Geoffery J.D.
title	Spatial/Territorial Development Policies in the United States
title_short	Spatial/Territorial Development Policies in the United States
title_full	Spatial/Territorial Development Policies in the United States
title_fullStr	Spatial/Territorial Development Policies in the United States
title_full_unstemmed	Spatial/Territorial Development Policies in the United States
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publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
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Spatial/Territorial Development Policies in the United States

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