Sustaining Michigan : Metropolitan Policies and Strategies

by Jelier, Richard W.

• ISBN13: 9780870138508
• ISBN10: 0870138502
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-30
• Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr

Summary

Creating sustainable metropolitan communities in the twenty-first century will pose great challenges for Michigan and other states in the region. Sustaining Michigan links critical, cutting-edge scholarship to pressing issues facing Michigan's metropolitan communities and increases understanding of the key economic, environmental, social, and political reasons why change is underway, the challenges to the current system, and the difficulty for Michigan in making substantive changes.

Author Biography

Richard W. Jelier is an Associate Professor at Grand Valley State University. Gary Sands is an Associate Professor at Wayne State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Introduction. Metropolitan Affairs and the Triple Bottom Line in Michigan	p. 1
Economic and Fiscal Perspectives
The Economic and Fiscal Background of Metropolitan Policies in Michigan	p. 17
Michigan's Industrial Tax Abatements: Pyrrhic Victories?	p. 45
Abating Taxes, Abetting Sprawl: The Geographical Distribution of Tax Abatements in Michigan	p. 63
Equity and Politics in Road-Spending Allocation in Michigan: Implications for Metropolitan Affairs	p. 85
Coming Together in Tough Economic Times: Workforce Development and Economic Development Move Closer in Michigan	p. 111
Environmental Concerns
Flushing the Conflict: Wastewater Cooperation among Michigan's Local Governments?	p. 135
Best Practices in Protecting Green Infrastructure: Benchmarking County Park Systems	p. 159
The Impact of Policy Change in Local and State Environmental Policy: Brownfield Redevelopment in Michigan	p. 183
Social/Political Dynamics
Explaining Horizontal and Vertical Cooperation in Michigan	p. 207
Regional Housing Policy: Can Crisis Spawn Collaboration?	p. 237
Michigan's Urban Policies in an Era of Land Use Reform and Creative-Class Cities	p. 261
The Brain Drain Wars: Characteristics of Recent Movers into and out of Michigan	p. 281
Towards a Triple Bottom Line
Building a Triple Bottom Line Sustainability Model in Michigan	p. 309
List of Contributors	p. 331
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