THE CHANGING NATURE OF RURAL AMERICA1 |
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| Authors: | Ted K Bradshaw Edward J Blakely |
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| Institution: | TED K. BRADSHAW, Research Sociologist and Editor of California Data Briefs at the Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley, has written many articles and papers on California's economic development, educational system, governmental agencies, changing energy institutions, and policy issues. He is co-author of Rural Communities in Advanced Industrial Society and co-recipient of a Ford Foundation grant to examine population growth and economic change in four states with large rural areas.;EDWARD J. BLAKELY is Assistant Vice-president, Academic Personnel Systemwide and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a consultant for several international agencies on problems of economic and social development, and he is the author of several books, articles, and monographs, including Toward a Theory of Training People for the War on Poverty. He is co-author of Rural Communities in Advanced Industrial Society and corecipient of a Ford Foundation grant to examine population growth and economic change in four states with large rural areas. |
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| Abstract: | Rural regions are changing, both in terms of economic dispersal and population patterns. Rural growth is attributed to technological innovation, improving capacity to deal with impending problems as well as improving quality of life, and intercommunity linkage. For some communities, this means the prospects of indigenous economic development. |
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