AUDIO: How to address the Berkshires' economic development challenges
A part-time Berkshires resident also happens to be a leader in urban planning, regional economic development, and place-making.
In this Berkshire Argus Podcast episode, a conversation with Steven Pedigo, a professor of urban development and director of the LBJ Urban Lab at the University of Texas at Austin.
Pedigo, who is also a part-time Great Barrington resident, has worked with dozens of cities and communities around the world on leveraging their assets to meet their challenges.
In this conversation, he speaks with Bill Shein about how approaches to economic development have evolved to focus on broader metrics of community health; that addressing this region's housing challenge is also, at its heart, a workforce development challenge; and what he's learned from working with communities around the world to craft regional strategies that don't dilute what makes individual communities unique.
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