Urban and Regional Policy and its Effects Building Resilient Regions

by Weir, Margaret; Pindus, Nancy; Wial, Howard

• ISBN13: 9780815722847
• ISBN10: 0815722842
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-02
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Summary

This fourth volume of Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effectsintroduces scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to the concept of regional resilience and discusses how it can be promoted --or impeded --by regional characteristics and public policies. In the first chapter, Kathryn Foster defines regional resilience, examines the concepts of resilience as an outcome and resilience as a capacity, and introduces the development of a "regional resilience index" that can reveal and compare regional resilience capacity and performance for U.S. metropolitan areas. Subsequent chapters each address a particularpolicy challenge with respect to resilience. These issues include: Home mortgage foreclosures Immigration Public transportation Regional economic development Poverty The authors seek to illuminate how the walls that now segment metropolitan regions across political jurisdictions and across institutions --and the gaps that separate federal laws from regional realities --have to be bridged in order for regions to cultivate resilience. This book is a collaboration among the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program; the George Washington University's George Washington Institute of Public Policy and Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration; the UrbanInstitute; and the Building Resilient Regions Network, an interdisciplinaryresearch network sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and housed at the University of California--Berkeley. Contributors include Kathryn A. Foster, Todd Swanstrom, Manuel Pastor, John Mollenkopf, Rolf Pendall, Juliet Gainsborough, Kate Lowe, Mai Nguyen, Edward Hill, Howard Wial, Harold Wolman, Travis St. Clair, Patricia Atkins, Pamela Blumenthal, Sarah Ficenec, Alec Friedhoff, Margaret Weir, and Sarah Reckhow.