Boom Towns : Restoring the Urban American Dream.
Material type: TextPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780804792271Subject(s): Right of property -- Economic aspects -- United States | Urban economics | Urban policy -- United States | Urban renewal -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Boom Towns : Restoring the Urban American DreamDDC classification: 307.760973 LOC classification: HT123Online resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Contents -- Preface: Even Detroit -- Chapter 1: What We've Lost-and Why -- Chapter 2: Fleeing Robin Hood -- Chapter 3: A 1-Percent Solution -- Chapter 4: The Conquest of Capital -- Chapter 5: A Better Climate -- Chapter 6: Things Fall Apart -- Chapter 7: Three Simple Rules -- Chapter 8: No Little Plans -- Chapter 9: Control Freaks -- Chapter 10: Reclaiming the Commons -- Chapter 11: Boom Commandments -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
Boom Towns presents a bold analysis of the decline of American cities and a guide to restoring their vitality. Stephen J.K. Walters argues that urban leaders must enforce property rights in order to prevent the loss of vital capital - physical, human, and social - that helps cities and their residents to flourish.
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