| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 587 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Why proximity is good -- 3. Cars, pollution, and accidents -- 4. Congestion -- 5. Mass transit -- 6. Land -- 7. Too many cars? Too much lawn? Too much blight? -- 8. Rules -- 9. Water, sewers, fire, and garbage -- 10. Education -- 11. Race and space -- 12. Race and policy -- 13. Housing : the big picture -- 14. Housing and poor people -- 15. Homelessness -- 16. Crime -- 17. Drugs, guns, and alcohol -- 18. Urban economic development -- Epilogue -- Glossary |
| Summary |
This introductory but innovative textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes, homelessness, crime, illicit drugs, and economic development |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Urban economics.
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Urban policy.
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Sociology, Urban.
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urban sociology.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Urban & Regional.
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Sociology, Urban
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Urban economics
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Urban policy
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Stadtökonomie
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Steden.
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Stedelijke economie.
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Stedelijk beleid.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005046310 |
| ISBN |
9780674041615 |
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0674041615 |
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0674019180 |
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9780674019188 |
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9780674252073 |
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0674252071 |
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