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Book SynopsisEmpowering the Vision is Rock Hill, South Carolina''s award-winning strategic planning process, which was implemented from 1990 to 2000. Rock Hill is a city of nearly 50,000 people located within the Charlotte, North Carolina (NC) Metropolitan Area. The city''s experiences help the reader understand how many southern cities in the United States have tried to adjust to the social, political, and economic changes affecting their region since the 1960s. The city achieved significant results because of the competent use of Empowering the Vision as a planning tool, the practice of visionary leadership by public officials, and because public officials used community-wide strategic planning to expand the purposes of the city''s urban regime and to construct the coalition capable of implementing the plan that transformed Rock Hill from a textile city in decline into a desirable suburb of Charlotte. The lessons learned from Rock Hill''s experience will guide other communities by contributing t
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Tables and Illustrations Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Community-Wide Strategic Planning and Urban Regime Theory Chapter 5 The Basic Design of Empowering the Vision Chapter 6 Lessons from the Planning Process: 1987 to 1989 Chapter 7 Achieving the Vision: ETV Ten Years Later Chapter 8 Political Factions and Regime Formation Chapter 9 Conflict, Cooperation and Issue-Based Politics Chapter 10 Using Community-Wide Strategic Planning in the Future Chapter 11 Appendix: Research Design Chapter 12 Endnotes Chapter 13 Bibliography Chapter 14 About the Author Chapter 15 Index
