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- All Subjects: Maricopa County (Ariz.)
- Creators: Battelle Memorial Institute
- Creators: Maricopa Association of Governments
Intended to provide a source of information and design assistance to support walking as an alternative transportation mode. This report is also intended to make the places we walk safer, more comfortable, and more desirable as destinations.
In step with other organizations, the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (the Valley’s regional public-private economic development organization) published a comprehensive 10-year economic development strategy that codified its change in direction to quality economic development in aerospace, bio-industry, advanced business and financial services, technology, and software. In early 2004, the Governor’s Council on Innovation and Technology issued Building Arizona’s Knowledge-Based Economy with scores of recommendations on venture capital, higher education, collaboration, workforce development, and other topics. Separately, each of these items would have been notable. Taken together, they demonstrate a strong commitment to the growth of a knowledge economy and to the multifaceted approaches needed to develop it.