City Economics

✍ Scribed by Brendan O'Flaherty

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 601
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This introductory textbook on the economics of cities is for students of urban and regional policy and of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including transportation, pollution, housing, and education, but also discusses topics such as segregation, water supply, sewerage, garbage, homelessness, crime, and economic development.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Why Proximity Is Good
Chapter 3. Cars, Pollution, And Accidents
Chapter 4. Congestion
Chapter 5. Mass Transit
Chapter 6. Land
Chapter 7. Too Many Cars? Too Much Lawn? Too Much Blight?
Chapter 8. Rules
Chapter 9. Water, Sewers, Fire, And Garbage
Chapter 10. Education
Chapter 11. Race And Space
Chapter 12. Race And Policy
Chapter 13. Housing: The Big Picture
Chapter 14. Housing And Poor People
Chapter 15. Homelessness
Chapter 16. Crime
Chapter 17. Drugs, Guns, And Alcohol
Chapter 18. Urban Economic Development
Epilogue
Glossary
Index

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