TY - BOOK AU - Walters,Stephen J.K. TI - Boom Towns: Restoring the Urban American Dream SN - 9780804792271 AV - HT123 U1 - 307.760973 PY - 2014/// CY - Redwood City PB - Stanford University Press KW - Right of property -- Economic aspects -- United States KW - Urban economics KW - Urban policy -- United States KW - Urban renewal -- United States KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1742617 ER -