Boom towns : restoring the urban American dream

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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Bibliographic Details
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
Subjects:
Urban policy > United States.
Urban renewal > United States.
Urban economics.
Right of property > Economic aspects > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Right of property > Economic aspects
Urban economics
Urban policy
Urban renewal
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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