City Economics

✍ Scribed by Brendan O'Flaherty

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 602
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

I usually hate economics, but this book has really presented the information that is easy to understand, and easy to incorporate into decision making.

I strongly recommend it!

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
1 Introduction......Page 16
2 Why Proximity Is Good......Page 27
3 Cars, Pollution, and Accidents......Page 49
4 Congestion......Page 67
5 Mass Transit......Page 101
6 Land......Page 131
7 Too Many Cars? Too Much Lawn? Too Much Blight?......Page 160
8 Rules......Page 174
9 Water, Sewers, Fire, and Garbage......Page 224
10 Education......Page 262
11 Race and Space......Page 301
12 Race and Policy......Page 331
13 Housing: The Big Picture......Page 363
14 Housing and Poor People......Page 405
15 Homelessness......Page 438
16 Crime......Page 456
17 Drugs, Guns, and Alcohol......Page 498
18 Urban Economic Development......Page 532
Epilogue......Page 584
Glossary......Page 586
Index......Page 592