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Author Walters, Stephen John Kasabuski, 1953- author.

Title Boom towns : restoring the urban American dream / Stephen J.K. Walters.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 210 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents What we've lost -- and why -- Fleeing Robin Hood -- A 1-percent solution -- The conquest of capital -- A better climate -- Things fall apart -- Three simple rules -- No little plans -- Control freaks -- Reclaiming the commons -- Boom commandments.
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Summary American 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 our towns, Walters reconceives of cities as dense accumulations of ca.
Subject Urban policy -- United States.
Urban renewal -- United States.
Urban economics.
Right of property -- Economic aspects -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Right of property -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst01097867
Urban economics. (OCoLC)fst01162408
Urban policy. (OCoLC)fst01162489
Urban renewal. (OCoLC)fst01162536
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Walters, Stephen John Kasabuski, 1953- Boom towns. 9780804781633 080478163X (DLC) 2014015436
ISBN 0804792275 (electronic bk.)
9780804792271 (electronic bk.)
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