Andy Pike is Henry Daysh Professor of Regional Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UK.

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose is Professor of Economic Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics, UK.

John Tomaney is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK.

Preface to the Second Edition

Part I - Introduction

1. Introduction: local and regional development

2. What kind of local and regional development and for whom?

Part II - Frameworks of understanding

3. Concepts and theories of local and regional development

4. Institutions, government and governance

Part III - Interventions: rationales, strategies, policies and instruments

5. Rationales for intervention, strategy and policy development

6. Mobilising indigenous potential

7. Attracting and embedding exogenous resources

Part IV - Integrated approaches

8. Local and regional development in practice

9. Conclusions

References

Index

Local and Regional Development provides an accessible, critical and integrated examination of local and regional development theory, institutions and policy in this changing context. Amidst its rising importance, the book addresses the fundamental issues of 'what kind of local and regional development and for whom?', its purposes, principles and values, frameworks of understanding, approaches and interventions throughout the world. The title concludes by identifying what might constitute holistic, inclusive, progressive and sustainable local and regional development, and reflecting upon its limits and political renewal.