Abstract
This paper proposes a national regional policy based on the development of employment opportunities in an intermediate-sized city. The strategy is based on thre propositions. First, it is not generally feasible to base a national strategy on the industrialization of rural areas. Second, it is possible that our metropolitan areas are too big and growth should be watched. Finally, given changes in technology it is possible to offer rural areas an alterantive growth strategy to urban ghettos.
Highlights
This paper proposes a national regional policy based on the development of employment opportunities in intermediate-sized cities, with the condition that a significant number of these opportunities be made available to residents of economically lagging areas
Insofar as any coherent regional policy exists in the United States it has been devised and implemented on the assumption that it is feasible to attract sufficient industry to lagging, and for the most part rural, regions of the country to give the people in these regions economic opportunities comparable to those enjoyed by other Americans
The experience of other countries which have been trying for longer than the United States to promote the growth of large lagging regions indicates It&at such efforts have not been generally successful? there is evidence from the United States and abroad of greater equality in the geogaaphlcal distri bution of manufacturing, this does not imply any concomitant decrease in regional income differences or any relatively greater attractiveness of small towns or rural areas
Summary
This paper proposes a national regional policy based on the development of employment opportunities in intermediate-sized cities, with the condition that a significant number of these opportunities be made available to residents of economically lagging areas. It is not generally feasible to base a national regional strategy on the industrialization of rural areas. It is quite possible that our largest metropolitan areas are too big in terms of both economic efficiency and public preferences, so that their growth should be. With expanded manpower and human resource development programs, and with expanded comprehensive relocation assistance, it is possible to provide alternatives to rural poverty other than the metropolitan ghetto. At the end of the paper the Piedmont Crescent will be considered as the kind of intermediate area upon which a national growth-center strategy could be based
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