Jobs And Economic Development in Minority Communities

Klappentext Examines economic development and job creation in different physical and social settings to forge a new agenda for community economic development in minority neighborhoods Zusammenfassung Planners and policy makers need to reformulate community economic development in ways that account for the particularities of different minority groups. This book considers these challenges by examining case studies of economic development and job creation in different physical and social settings across the nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities Realities! Challenges! and Innovation (Ong! P. and Loukaitou-Sideris! A.) Part I: The Context 2: Metropolitan Dispersion and Diversity: Implications for Community Economic Development (Blumenberg! E.); 3: Impacts of the New Social Policy Regime (Houston! D. and Ong! P.); Chapter 4: The Regional Nexus: The Promise and Risk of Community-Based Approaches to Metropolitan Equity (Pastor! M.! Benner! C.! and Matsuoka! M.) Part II: Labor Market Development 5: Workforce Development in Minority Communities (Stoll! M.); 6: Employment Opportunities Beyond the 'hood: African American and Hispanic Applicants in Atlanta! Los Angeles! New York! and Philadelphia (Zonta! M.); 7: Economic Development in Latino Communities: Incorporating Marginal and Immigrant Workers (Valenzuela! A) Part III: Business Development 8: The Role of Black-owned Businesses in Black Community Development (Boston! T.); 9: New York City's Asian Immigrant Economies: Community Development Needs and Challenges (Hum! T.); 10: Indian Gaming as Community Economic Development (Jojola! T. and Ong! P.) Part IV: Complementary Strategies 11: Social Networks and Social Capital: Latinos in Pico Union (Loukaitou-Sideris! A. and Hutchinson! J.); 12: Linking Housing to Community Economic Development with Community Benefits Agreements: The Case of the Figueroa Corridor Coalition for Economic Justice (Leavitt! J.); 13: Synchronizing Social Services with Labor Market Participation: Implications for Community Economic Development in Minority Neighborhoods (Takahashi! L); 14 Conclusion: Lessons for Community Economic Development (Loukaitou-Sideris! A. and Ong! P.) ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul M. (EDT)/ Loukaitou-Sideris Ong
• Con la collaborazione di: Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (Editore), Paul Ong (Editore)
• Editore: Temple University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.07.2006
• EAN: 9781592134090
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-409-0
• Pagine: 314
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Pianificazione urbanistica, territoriale e del paesaggio; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura; Anthropologie, Stadt- und Gemeindeplanung