This paper examines the tension between regionalism and progressive goals, focusing on the effort to ensure that the benefits of growth are widely shared and that the concerns of low-income neighborhoods and the residents are a regional priority. Drawing on our research about transportation...

Since 1995, the James Irvine Foundation has invested more than $11 million to support the growth and development of CRIs throughout the state nonprofit organizations that engage key players from business, environmental, and a variety of other advocacy groups with players from local governments...

Studies of new regionalism" often focus on the new actors or goals characteristic of contemporary regional coalitions, at the cost of recognizing how competing social movements may constrain regional policy. This paper considers the recent evolution of the property rights and taxpayer movements...