Reflections on Regionalism

By: Al Gore

Book Overview

Academics, community activists, and politicians have rediscovered regionalism, insisting that regions are critical functional units in a world-wide economy and, just as important, critical functional units in individual American lives. More and more of us travel across city, county, even state borders every morning on our way to work. Our television, radio, and print media rely on a regional marketplace. Our businesses, large and small, depend...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815748256
• ISBN13: 9780815748250
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The Cities of Tomorrow

This book lays it all out and tells you what it all means. Where the cities have been, where there are now, where they are going, and, most importantly, what we should be doing about it. These essays make it clear that, as we enter the twenty-first century,cities and the regions around them can no longer afford to act as if they are discreet entities. Necessarilly and irreversibly, the fate of one will be more and more intimately tied to that of the other. The sooner that politicians at every level understand this, the better. This book is a major contribution. No one involved with urban policy can afford to be ignorant of the information and insights it contains.Governor Bush and his campaign should read Vice-President Gore's introduction and then be afraid, be very afraid. It is clear that Gore has the "vision thing" -- a way of approaching the future that brings everyone into a regional "big tent."