Designed to be used as a classroom text, a book of readings, a reference, or a guide to rural development practitioners and decision makers, this book includes both general and sophisticated analyses relative to a comprehensive understanding of rural development fundamentals. Attempting to integrate the literature on micropolitan development into a meaningful whole, the chapters in this text are titled as follows: "Micropolitan Development in a National Setting"; "Micropolitan Development Goals and the Formation of Public Policy"; "Theories of Micropolitan Economic Development"; "Human Resources: The Labor Force"; "Human Resources: Economics of Education"; "Human Resources: The Waste of Poverty"; "Community Services and Infrastructure"; "Industrialization"; "Mobilizing Community Resources for Development"; "Introduction to Substate Comprehensive Planning and Land-Use Planning"; "Planning: Formal Economic Models"; "Planning: Feasibility Studies"; "Financing Development"; and "National Growth Policy". (JC)