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The Power of Just Growth: Chris Benner at TEDxSacramento City 2.0

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Education

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The Power of Just Growth--Diverse knowledge communities and their role in shaping inclusion and prosperity in America's Metropolitan Regions

Chris Benner is an Associate Professor of Community and Regional Development at the University of California, Davis.  He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.  Dr. Benner's research focuses on the relationships between technological change, regional development, and structures of economic opportunity.  Dr. Benner's recent book, co-authored with USC Professor Manuel Pastor, is Just Growth:  Inclusion and Prosperity in America's Metropolitan Regions, which helps uncover the processes, policies and institutional arrangements that help explain how certain regions around the country have been able to consistently link prosperity and inclusion.  Breaking new ground in its research methods, the book argues that we need more than just growth (or growth alone), and that especially in the context of our current economic stagnation and inequality, lessons from these "just growth" regions can help shape a new paradigm in which the promotion of social equity is not simply seen as a beneficial social goal but as an important component of economic development policy and practice.

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