Boom towns : restoring the urban American dream / Stephen J.K. Walters.

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...

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Main Author: Walters, Stephen John Kasabuski, 1953- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2014.
Series:Stanford Economics and Finance
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