Connecting People and Place Prosperity: Workforce Development and Urban Planning in Scholarship and Practice. (August 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schrock, Greg
• Is Part Of: Journal of planning literature. Volume 29:Number 3(2014:Aug.)
• Page Start: 257
• Page End: 271
• Publication Date: 2014-08
• Subjects: workforce development -- economic development -- labor markets -- equity planning; City planning -- Bibliography -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Bibliography -- Periodicals; Planning -- Bibliography -- Periodicals; 711.0973
• DOI: 10.1177/0885412214538834
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0885-4122

Abstract

In recent years, the field of workforce development has emerged as a distinct area of policy and practice. While planning scholars have begun to engage with the workforce development field, its relevance and points of connection to planning scholarship remain underexplored. This article attempts to define the workforce development field by articulating its core concerns as well as its domains of practice and scholarship outside the planning field. The article locates workforce development within three stands of planning scholarship, concluding that workforce development represents an important bridge for planners between "place" and "people" prosperity within communities.