Alan Rabinowitz

Urban Economics and Land Use in America: The Transformation of Cities in the Twentieth Century (eBook, ePUB)

The Transformation of Cities in the Twentieth Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is a work about the growth of American cities and their suburbs during the 20th century, about institutions and metropolitan governance, about real estate development and finance, about housing and the lack of it, and about the emergence and maybe the future debilitation of cities and suburbs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317452805
• Artikelnr.: 43083801

Autorenporträt

Alan Rabinowitz has worked and taught in the intersecting fields of urban land-use analysis, economic development, housing, city and regional planning, real estate investment, state-local finance, and community organizing for many decades. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT and an M.B.A. from Harvard. He has written a number of books and has worked in the United States and abroad for private consulting, financial and investing firms, and for governmental agencies. He currently lives with his wife in Seattle.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 Overview
Chapter 2 How Garden Cities Became the Standard for the Development of American Suburbs
Part II Setting the Scene
Chapter 3 Generations of Babbitts and Ebenezers
Chapter 4 Some Historical Themes and Sensibilities
Chapter 5 Public Lands and the Native Population
Chapter 6 Visions of the Twenty-first Century
Part III Notes on Suburbanization
Chapter 7 The Suburbs According to Richard T. Ely in 1902
Chapter 8 Patterns of Transportation and Metropolitanizatlon, 1900-2000
Part IV The Record: 1900-2000
Chapter 9 Structuring the Political Economy of America, 1900-30
Chapter 10 Restructuring America
Chapter 11 Restructuring Continued
Chapter 12 Destructuring America, 1968-2000
partV Looking Onward
Chapter 13 The Metropolitan System in Gear
Chapter 14 Remaking America in the Twenty-first Century