Title:	Smart Metropolitan Regional Development
Authors:	T. M. Vinod Kumar
Keywords:	Geography. Democracy. Regional planning.
Issue Date:	2019
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	In his book, ‘Thank you for being late’, Thomas Friedman (2016) describes the Western world as having both an epidemic of failing communities, as well as also having a plenty of thriving ones—because of strong leaders at the local level. He suggests a redesign of our geopolitics and communities, with special attention to the place of regional development. The popular notion that America is a nation divided between two coastal metropolitans that are supposedly thriving, pluralizing and globalizing, comparing a vast interior where jobs have disappeared, drug addiction is endemic and everyone is hoping Trump can bring back the 1950s, is mistaken. The big divide in America is not between the coasts and the interior: it is between strong communities and weak communities. One can find weak ones along the coast and thriving ones in Appalachia. Yet, the model of urbanization over the past two decades has been far from ‘smart’
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/44023
ISBN:	978-981-10-8588-8
Appears in Collections:	Regional and Local Development Studies

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