City Economics

Name: City Economics
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ISBN: 9780674019188

ISBN-10: 0674019180

ISBN-13: 9780674019188

Edition: 2005

Authors: Brendan O'Flaherty

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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. Its methods of analysis are primarily verbal, geometric, and arithmetic. The author achieves coherence by showing how the analysis of various topics reinforces one another. Thus, buses can tell us something about schools and optimal tolls about…

Book details

List price: $102.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 608
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.816
Language: English

Brendan O'Flaherty is Professor of Economics at Columbia University.



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Why Proximity Is Good



Cars, Pollution, and Accidents



Congestion



Mass Transit



Land



Too Many Cars? Too Much Lawn? Too Much Blight?



Rules



Water, Sewers, Fire, and Garbage



Education



Race and Space



Race and Policy



Housing: The Big Picture



Housing and Poor People



Homelessness



Crime



Drugs, Guns, and Alcohol



Urban Economic Development


Epilogue


Glossary


Index