Subject(s): Urban economics -- Economic conditions -- Economic history -- Local economic development planning -- Redefining the field of local economic development : State industrial recruitment, political critiques of local economic development activity, entrepreneurial and equity strategies, sustainability and justice, privatization and interdependence -- Sectoral strategies for local economic development : Planning process for sectoral strategies, high tech sector, Jane Addams resource corporation, biotechnology, bioscience, brownfield redevelopment challenge,state brownfield initiatives, environmental site assessments, Louisville-Jefferson county landmark authority -- Industrial retention- multiple strategies for keeping manufacturing strong : Clybourn PMD, Kinzie corridor PMD, industrial corridors, tax increment financing, industrial parks, protecting manufacturing, industrial retention in suburbs -- Commercial revitalization in central cities and older suburbs -- Reuse of office and industrial property in city and suburb -- Job-centred economic development - an approach for linking workforce and local economic development : Legislative environment, Seattle jobs initiative, -- Strategies and progress for local economic development : Incorporating equity, sustainability, negotiating trade offs, political support