LEADER 03729nam 2200625 450 001 9910809945503321 005 20230803203731.0 010 $a0-8047-9227-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804792271 035 $a(CKB)3710000000199220 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001267523 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12461582 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001267523 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11255636 035 $a(PQKB)10588786 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1742617 035 $a(DE-B1597)564385 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804792271 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1742617 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10895708 035 $a(OCoLC)888550366 035 $a(OCoLC)1178770029 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000199220 100 $a20140731h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBoom towns $erestoring the urban American dream /$fStephen J. K. Walters 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (225 pages) 225 0 $aStanford Economics and Finance 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8047-8163-X 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface. Even Detroit --$tChapter 1. What We?ve Lost?and Why --$tChapter 2. Fleeing Robin Hood --$tChapter 3. A 1-Percent Solution --$tChapter 4. The Conquest of Capital --$tChapter 5. A Better Climate --$tChapter 6. Things Fall Apart --$tChapter 7. Three Simple Rules --$tChapter 8. No Little Plans --$tChapter 9. Control Freaks --$tChapter 10. Reclaiming the Commons --$tChapter 11. Boom Commandments --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aAmerican cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or at Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline is reversible. In Boom Towns, Stephen J.K. Walters diagnoses the root causes of urban decline in order to prescribe remedies that will enable cities to thrive once again. Arguing that commonplace explanations for urban decay misunderstand the nature of our towns, Walters reconceives of cities as dense accumulations of capital in all of its forms?places that attract people by making their labor more productive and their leisure more pleasurable. Policymakers, therefore, must properly define and enforce property rights in order to prevent the flight of capital and the resulting demise of urban centers. Using vivid evocations of iconic towns and the people who crucially affected their destinies, Walters shows how public policy measures which aim to revitalize often do more harm than good. He then outlines a more promising set of policies to remedy the capital shortage that continues to afflict many cities and needlessly limit their residents' opportunities. With its fresh interpretation of one of the American quandaries of our day, Boom Towns offers a novel contribution to the debate about American cities and a program for their restoration. 606 $aUrban policy$zUnited States 606 $aUrban renewal$zUnited States 606 $aUrban economics 606 $aRight of property$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States 615 0$aUrban policy 615 0$aUrban renewal 615 0$aUrban economics. 615 0$aRight of property$xEconomic aspects 676 $a307.760973 700 $aWalters$b Stephen John Kasabuski$f1953-$0676347 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809945503321 996 $aBoom towns$94108292 997 $aUNINA