Boom towns : restoring the urban American dream / Stephen J.K. Walters.
Material type: TextSeries: Stanford Economics and FinancePublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (xii, 210 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0804792275
- 9780804792271
- Urban policy -- United States
- Urban renewal -- United States
- Urban economics
- Right of property -- Economic aspects -- United States
- Politique urbaine -- États-Unis
- Rénovation urbaine -- États-Unis
- Économie urbaine
- Droit de propriété -- Aspect économique -- États-Unis
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban
- Right of property -- Economic aspects
- Urban economics
- Urban policy
- Urban renewal
- United States
- 307.760973 23
- HT123 .W2145 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
What we've lost -- and why -- Fleeing Robin Hood -- A 1-percent solution -- The conquest of capital -- A better climate -- Things fall apart -- Three simple rules -- No little plans -- Control freaks -- Reclaiming the commons -- Boom commandments.
Print version record.
American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or at Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline is reversible. In Boom Towns, Stephen J.K. Walters diagnoses the root causes of urban decline in order to prescribe remedies that will enable cities to thrive once again. Arguing that commonplace explanations for urban decay misunderstand the nature our towns, Walters reconceives of cities as dense accumulations of ca.
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