regional growth
Area economic increase
Regional growth refers to economic, population, or developmental expansion within a specific geographic area.
The term appears in urban planning, economics, and policy discussions: The new highway spurred regional growth.
It can describe desirable development or, negatively, unchecked sprawl that strains infrastructure and resources.
- job creationEstablishing new work positions
- small businessModest independent commercial venture
- transportation networksSystems moving people, goods
- urbanizationPopulation shift toward cities
- industrializationTransition to factory-based economy
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- economic developmenteconomic development, jobs, rural development, urbanization, job creation
- urban planningcity planning, zoning map, master plans, zones, zoning reform
- urbanizationcity, metropolis, urban sprawl, suburbanization, urban
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- demographicspopulation density, age distribution, population, gender ratio, ethnic groups
- statisticsmean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation