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Reshaping Metropolitan America Development Trends and Opportunities To 2030

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ISBN-10: 1610910338

ISBN-13: 9781610910330

Edition: 2nd 2012

Authors: Arthur C. Nelson, Earl Blumenauer

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Nearly half the buildings that will be standing in 2030 do not exist today. That means we have a tremendous opportunity to reinvent our urban areas, making them more sustainable and livable for future generations. But for this vision to become reality, the planning community needs reliable data about emerging trends and smart projections about how they will play out. Arthur C. Nelson delivers that resource in Reshaping Metropolitan America. This unprecedented reference provides statistics about changes in population, jobs, housing, nonresidential space, and other key factors that are shaping the built environment, but its value goes beyond facts and figures. Nelson expertly analyzes…    
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Book details

List price: $41.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 1/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Arthur C. Nelson, FAICP, the lead author, is director of the Metropolitan Institute and professor of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is editor ofHousing Policy Debateand associate editor of both theJournal of the American Planning Associationand theJournal of Urban Affairs.

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Major Market Trends and Demographic Changes
What Americans Want
Households and Housing
Space Needs for Jobs
The Reshape America Index
The Benefits of Reshaping Metropolitan America
Agenda to Reshape Metropolitan America
Notes
References and Selected Bibliography
Index