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Autore: |
O'Flaherty Brendan
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Titolo: |
City economics [[electronic resource] /] / Brendan O'Flaherty
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Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica: | xii, 587 p. : ill |
Disciplina: | 330.9173/2 |
Soggetto topico: | Urban economics |
Urban policy | |
Sociology, Urban | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Classificazione: | MS 1750 |
Persona (resp. second.): | O'FlahertyBrendan |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | This introductory but innovative textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes, homelessness, crime, illicit drugs, and economic development. |
Titolo autorizzato: | City economics ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-674-04161-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910454930703321 |
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