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Publications The Alliance for Regional Stewardship (ARS) publishes a Monograph Series, regional best practices, and book reviews on topics of interest to regional stewards. All items are in pdf format (to download Adobe Acrobat, go to www.adobe.com). ALLIANCE MONOGRAPHS:
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Monograph #1 (October 2000)
Regional Stewardship: A Commitment to Place
- Monograph #2 (April 2001)
Empowering Regions: Strategies and Tools for Community Decision Making
- Monograph #3 (August 2001)
The Downtowns of the Future: Opportunities for Regional Stewards
- Monograph #4 (October 2001)
The Triumph of the Regional Commons: Governing 21st Century Regional Communities
- Monograph #5 (March 2002)
The Practice of Regional Stewardship: Developing Leaders for Regional Action
- Monograph #6 (October 2003)
Metropolitan Regional Grantmaking: Promising Practices and the Stewardship of Place
Monograph #7 (November 2003)
Inclusive Stewardship: Emerging Collaborations Between Neighborhoods and Regions
Monograph #8 (October 2004)
Toward a Vision of the Livable Community
Monograph #9 (October 2004)
Regional Business Civic Organizations: Creating New Agendas for Metropolitan Competitiveness
BEST PRACTICES/CASE STUDIES/REPORTS:
- Result, Resilience, and Renewal: The Mayfair Index of Progress (March 2005)
Through data, this index tells a story of an entire community--residents, local government, nonprofit agencies, churches, schools, allies from oustide the neighborhood, regional leaders--all of whom came together to work in partnership.
- Regional Emergency Preparedness Compacts (March 2002)
This survey of regional approaches to emergency preparedness makes the case that regional emergency preparedness compacts offer a common-sense way to achieve results in a more effective manner. For the summary, click here.
- Regional Leadership Development Initiatives (February 2002)
National scan of innovative regional leadership development programs, sponsored by ARS and the MacArthur Foundation.
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Regions and the Media (September 2000)
Roundtable discussion about the role of newspapers as regional stewards, conducted at the California Civic Entrepreneurs Summit.
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Innovative Regional Leadership (May 2000)
National Scan of Innovative Regional Leadership Models, prepared for ARS Leadership Forum in Kohler, Wisconsin.
BOOK REVIEW (alphabetical listing):
- Civil Society: The Underpinnings of American Democracy
Author: Brian O'Connell (Tufts University, 1999)
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Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival
Authors: Paul Grogan and Tony Proscio (WestView Press, 2000)
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Creative Destruction
Authors: Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan (Doubleday, 2001)
- Everybody's Business: Managing Risks and Opportunities in Today's Global Society
Authors: David Grayson and Adrian Hodges (DK Publishing, 2002)
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Global City Regions: Trends, Theory and Policy
Editor: Allen Scott (Oxford, 2001)
- Hope is Not a Method
Authors: Gordon Sullivan and Michale Harper (Random House, 1996)
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In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work
Authors: Don Cohen and Laurence Prusak (Harvard Business School Press, 2001)
- Knowledge-Value Cities in the Digital Age
Authors: Joel Kotkin and Ross C. Devol (Milken Institute, 2001)
- The Magic of Dialogue: Transforming Conflict into Cooperation
Author: Daniel Yankelovich (Simon & Schuster, 1999)
- On Leadership
Author: John W. Gardner (Free Press, 1990)
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Preserving the World's Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of The Historic Metropolis
Author: Anthony Tung (Clarkson Potter, 2001)
- Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
Authors: Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee (HBS Press, 2002)
- Reflections on Regionalism
Editor: Bruce Katz (Brookings Press, 1999)
- Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together
Authors: Manuel Pastor Jr., Peter Dreier, J. Eugene Grigsby III, and Marta López-Garza (University of Minnesota Press, 2000)
- The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape
Author: Joel Kotkin (Random House, 2000)
- The Regional City
Authors: Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton (Island Press, 2001)
- The Silicon Valley Edge: Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Editors: Chong-Moon Lee, William F. Miller, Marguerite-Gong Hancock and Henry Rowen (Stanford University Press, 2000)
- The Social Life of Information
Authors: John Seely Brown, Paul Guguid (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)
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The Tipping Point
Author: Malcom Gladwell (Little Brown, 2000)
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