Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice [Paperback]

Edward J. Blakely (Author), Ted K. Bradshaw (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0761924582 | ISBN-13: 978-0761924586 | Edition: 3rd

Building on the success of its predecessors, the Third Edition continues to explore the theories of local economic development and address the dilemmas communities face. Blakely and Bradshaw investigate planning processes, analytical techniques, business and human resource development, as well as high-technology economic development strategies.

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About the Author

Dr. Edward J. Blakely is Professor of Urban Policy in the United States Study Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has held academic positions in teaching, research, academic administration, and economic development policy for more than 30 years, including Dean of the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy and Dean of the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning, and Development. He is a leading scholar and practitioner in the fields of planning and local economic development. Dr. Blakely served as a policy adviser to the mayor of Oakland and adviser to the Los Angeles Public School District. He was appointed by President Clinton as Vice Chair of the Presidio Trust, where he played a key role in the development of the former army base into a profitable civic facility. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Planning Association, the Nature Conservancy, and Fulbright Association. In January 2007, Dr. Blakely was appointed by the Mayor of New Orleans to head the recovery effort following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Ted Bradshaw studies:

Community and Regional Policy and Planning with particular emphasis on California, Alternative Growth Scenarios in the Central Valley, and Community Strategies for Dealing with Military Base Closures, Super Energy Efficient Housing.

Ted Bradshaw teaches:

Community Development (CRD 152)
Community Economic Development (CRD 156)
Community Development Theory (CRD 240)

Selected Publications:

Bradshaw, Ted K. (1994). Defense industry conversion, base closure, and the California economy : critical issues for a statewide strategy / by Ted Bradshaw ... [et al.]. [Berkeley] : Institute of Business and Economic Research, University of California at Berkeley, Walter A. Haas School of Business.

Bradshaw, Ted K. (1995). Defense industry conversion, base closure, and the California economy : critical issues for a statewide strategy / Ted Bradshaw, et al. [Berkeley] : University of California at Berkeley, Institute of Urban and Regional Development.

Bradshaw, Ted K. (1989). The elusiveness of rural development theory and practice : domestic and third world perspectives joined / Ted K. Bradshaw. Berkeley, CA : Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Bradshaw, Ted K. (1992). Growth control and the failure of planning / by Ted K. Bradshaw. IN: California policy choices. Vol. 8.

Bradshaw, Ted K. (1992). In the shadow of urban growth : bifurcation in rural California communities / Ted K. Bradshaw. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California at Berkeley, Institute of Urban and Regional Development.
 

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; 3rd edition (June 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761924582
• ISBN-13: 978-0761924586
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #505,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best one available, December 28, 2008

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Jeremy Ryan Hill (Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice (Paperback)

I have purchased several books to use for the Economic Development class that I teach within a MPA program. This is the best book available for public administrators. Chapter 5, which is about "analytical techniques" is rather watered down. A couple of the chapters are getting a little outdated. Overall, this book provided a good general understanding of economic development.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic reference text!, September 16, 2009

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KMF (Bay Area, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice (Paperback)

I utilized this text while taking an Economic Develoment course as an undergraduate student. I am probably partial to the text as my Professor was a co-author. R.I.P Professor Bradshaw!

3 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Overpriced and full of bogus economic "facts", January 24, 2009

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CentralFlorida77 (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice (Paperback)

It's really as if someone from another planet or dimension wrote this book, or at the very least someone who is completely illiterate when it comes to economics.

The authors blame the very brief, and relatively mild recession of 2001 on "the gap between the haves and the have-nots."

Huh? Everyone with even a modicum of education knows that the economic slowdown began when the NASDAQ bubble burst in March of 2000, which turned into a full-blown recession a year later.

The authors call the 1980s and early 1990s (The Reagan-Bush 41 years) "one of the most traumatic economic experiences since the Great Depression."

Again, huh? Reagan inherited a basket-case of an economy from Jimmy Carter in 1981, but by 1983 the economy was experiencing one of the greatest booms in American history. The Reagan years saw the creation of nearly 20 million new jobs in the United States. There was a relatively mild and rather short (less than a year) recession in the middle of Bush 41's term in office, but it is pure lunacy to compare it in any way to the Great Depression.

I suspect the authors of this text are more interested in indoctrinating young and impressionable college students into a leftist worldview with dishonest propaganda than they are at actually informing and educating students with an unbiased assessment of the economic realities of our nation's recent history.