 | Deindustrialization and Regional Economic Transformation: The Experience of the United States Subjects: Built Environment; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Geography; Urban Studies; Economics Finance and Accounting; Urban Studies; Urban Economics; Planning; Human Geography; City and Urban Planning; Spatial and Regional Planning; Economic Geography; Urban Geography; Planning - Human Geography; Regional Geography - Human Geography; Originally published in 1989. This major book deals with deindustrialization and regional economic transformation in five regions of the USA: the industrial Midwest, the South, California, New England, and the New York metropolitan region. Four perspective studies then connect these diverse experiences to intra-metropolitan spatial adjustments, growth prospects for industry and services, and evolving regional theory and policy. An overview chapter sums up the main themes, common denominators and differences and some puzzles and unresolved issues. All concerned with the industrial and regional evolution of the USA - geographers, economists, planners, policy-makers, will find this authoritative survey useful. |
