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1 online resource (281 pages) |
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Front Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Retail Trade as a Route to Neighborhood Revitalization; Correlates of Mayoral Takeovers in City School Systems; The Education Gospel and the Metropolis: The Multiple Roles of Community Colleges in Workforce and Economic Development; Living Wage Laws: How Much Do (Can) They Matter?; The Next Move: Metropolitan Regions and the Transformation of the Freight Transport and Distribution System; How Might Inclusionary Zoning Affect Urban Form?; Index |
| Summary |
The goal of this book, the second in a series, is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas. What can we say about what works, what doesn't, and why? And what does this knowledge and experience imply for future policy questions?The authors take a fresh look at several different issues (e.g., education, economic development, land use) and conceptualize how each should be thought of. Once the contributors have presen |
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Print version record |
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City planning -- Congresses
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Regional planning -- Congresses
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Urban economics -- Congresses
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Urban policy -- Congresses
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Urban renewal -- Congresses
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Business.
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Social sciences.
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businesses (business enterprises)
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social sciences.
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Business.
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City planning.
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Regional planning.
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Social sciences.
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Urban economics.
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Urban policy.
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Urban renewal.
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Stadtentwicklung
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Stadtökonomie
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Wial, Howard
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Wolman, Harold
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| ISBN |
9780815703761 |
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0815703767 |
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