Fostering Regionalism: Comment on "The Promise and Perils of 'New Regionalist' Approaches to Sustainable Communities"
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This brief comment, written in response to Professor Lisa Alexander’s, “The Promise and Perils of ‘New Regionalist’ Approaches to Sustainable Communities,” reviews Professor Alexander’s assessment of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program. This comment suggests that although the ability to approach regionalism from a national perspective does not ensure that local power dynamics will not be replicated, the distance and independence that the federal perspective provides may in fact be a cause for optimism, particularly for those marginalized at the local level.
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