List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. The New Regionalism and the New Community Building; 2. When Work Doesn't Pay: Poverty and Employment in Los Angeles; 3. Disconnected Futures: Regional Strategies and Urban Revitalization in Los Angeles; 4. Community Builders and Concentrated Poverty: Making the Regional Connection; 5. Only as Strong as the Team: Poverty, Equity, and Regional Growth; 6. Regions That Work: Growth, Equity, and Policy in High-Performing Metropolitan Areas; 7. Growing Together: Policies for Regional Prosperity and Equity; Appendix A: Neighborhood Profiles
Summary
Regions That Work provides a history and critique of community-development corporations, a statistical analysis of the poverty-growth relationship in seventy-four metro areas, a detailed study of three regions that have produced superior equity outcomes, and a provocative call for new policies and new politics."A remarkable and timely book. ... Must reading." William Julius Wilson
