Reshaping Metropolitan America: Development Trends and Opportunities to 2030

✍ Scribed by Prof. Arhur C. Nelson (auth.)

Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 164
Series: Metropolitan Planning + Design
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Major Market Trends and Demographic Changes....Pages 9-32
What Americans Want....Pages 33-46
Households and Housing....Pages 47-65
Space Needs for Jobs....Pages 67-80
The Reshape America Index....Pages 81-87
The Benefits of Reshaping Metropolitan America....Pages 89-108
Agenda to Reshape Metropolitan America....Pages 109-122
Back Matter....Pages 123-151

✦ Subjects

Sustainable Development; Cities, Countries, Regions; Urbanism; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning

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