Boom Towns Restoring the Urban American Dream

Name: Boom Towns Restoring the Urban American Dream
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ISBN: 9780804781633

ISBN-10: 080478163X

ISBN-13: 9780804781633

Edition: 2014

Authors: Stephen J. K. Walters

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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 of cities, Walters reconceives of them as dense accumulations of capital in all of its formsplaces that attract people by making their labor more productive and their…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 8/27/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English