Empowering the Vision

Empowering the Vision is Rock Hill, South Carolina's award-winning community-wide strategic planning process, which was completed in 1989 and implemented from 1990 to 2000. The experiences of Rock Hill, a city of nearly 50, 000 people located within the Charlotte, North Carolina (NC) Metropolitan Area, help the reader understand how many southern cities in the United States attempted to adjust to the social, political, and economic changes affecting their region since the 1960s.

Chapter 1 Tables and Illustrations Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Community-Wide Strategic Planning and Urban Regime Theory Chapter 5 The Basic Design of Empowering the Vision Chapter 6 Lessons from the Planning Process: 1987 to 1989 Chapter 7 Achieving the Vision: ETV Ten Years Later Chapter 8 Political Factions and Regime Formation Chapter 9 Conflict, Cooperation and Issue-Based Politics Chapter 10 Using Community-Wide Strategic Planning in the Future Chapter 11 Appendix: Research Design Chapter 12 Endnotes Chapter 13 Bibliography Chapter 14 About the Author Chapter 15 Index