1st Edition

The Rise Of The Rustbelt Revitalizing Older Industrial Regions

Edited By Philip Cooke Copyright 1995

    The Rise of the Rustbelt demonstrates the value of interchange and comparison of ideas and policies for industrial regeneration between three major regions: the Great Lakes of North America, the Ruhrgebiet of North-Rhine-Westphalia, and the industrial belt of South Wales. The top priority of these areas is to conserve and retain their status as industrial powerhouses by attracting investment to compensate for their dramatic structural decline over the past twenty years and more. They have much to learn from one another.
    Encompassing environmental and sociocultural issues, as well as those of industrial economics and human resource development, The Rise of the Rustbelt will interest students, researchers and professionals in geography, planning, public policy, and industrial and business studies. It offers a wide-ranging and fully detailed analysis of some of the key issues arising in the wake of unprecedented industrial restructuring in three world-leading regions.

    1 Introduction 2 Promoting innovation through technology networks in North[1]Rhine–Westphalia 3 New wave regional and urban revitalization strategies in Wales 4 From front-runner to also-ran – the transformation of a once[1]dominant industrial region: Pennsylvania, USA 5 The restructuring of the steel industries in Germany and Great Britain 6 Disintegration and reintegration of production clusters in the Ruhr area 7 Groping towards reflexivity: responding to industrial change in Ontario 8 Industrial restructuring and further training in North[1]Rhine–Westphalia 9 Training policy and practice in Wales and North-Rhine–Westphalia 10 The industrial transformation of the Great Lakes Region 11 The dash for gas – consequences and opportunities 12 Restructuring policies: the Emscher Park International Building Exhibition 13 Keeping to the high road: learning, reflexivity and associative governance in regional economic development

    Biography

    Philip Cooke, University of Wales, Cardiff.