This book shows the possibilities and some of the limits of policy efforts made by business and government to bring about the renewal of badly hit regional econ

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Men in hardhats were once the heart of America’s working class; now it is women in scrubs. What does this shift portend for our future? Pittsburgh was once sy

Cities in the North Atlantic coal and steel belt embodied industrial power in the early twentieth century, but by the 1970s, their economic and political might

“Timely . . . [the collection] paints intimate portraits of neglected places that are often used as political talking points. A good companion piece to J. D.