摘要：Charlottetown and eurrent politieal events make this an appropriate time to reflect upon regional policy and regional science and how they have played themselves out over the past 20 years. It is not my intention, however, to provide a history of the past 20 years of regional policy and regional science, rather the argument 1 want to make is that we need to question how persistent regional economic and social inequality have been in light of all the developments that have occurred in regional policy and regional science (that is, over the past 20 years). Then, 1 want to consider sorne of the suggestions that have been made for renewing regional poliey and, in essence, renewing regional science. Finally, 1 would like to make my own suggestions for renewing our ·discipline.
