Revitalizing the Mahoning Valley

T F Buss and R J Vaughan
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T F Buss: Center for Urban Studies, Youngstown State University, 410 Wick Avenue, Youngstown, OH 44555, USA
R J Vaughan: Roger J Vaughan and Associates, PO Box 822, Gray, ME 04039, USA

Environment and Planning C, 1987, vol. 5, issue 4, 433-446

Abstract: For nearly a decade, since the closing of its steel mills, the Mahoning Valley in northeast Ohio has pursued a traditional development strategy, based upon large capital subsidies, to attract new or support existing businesses. These policies have failed. As a result, local business leaders have questioned the foundations of traditional policy and have developed an alternative strategy that involves a far broader set of state and local programs in the development process. The new strategy aims at five objectives: (1) rebuilding the entrepreneurial environment; (2) strengthening existing businesses; (3) creating economic opportunity for the poor; (4) improving the quality of public services, especially education and infrastructure; and (5) improving the quality of life, especially housing.

Date: 1987
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