Providing a useful guide for planners and students of planning, this revised edition of Lyons and Hamlin's 1990 book offers a framework for formulating a local economic development plan. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

This report details the process of planning for local economic development. The planning process discussed, enables a community to determine the appropriate meaning of economic development for itself, to examine the resources available for it, to identify the best courses of action for achieving it, and to plot the means of carrying out those course of action.