Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-first Century
- ISBN-10
- 0700611347
- ISBN-13
- 9780700611348
- Series
- Place Matters
- Category
- Business & Economics / Economics / General
- Pages
- 349
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Authors
- Todd Swanstrom, John H. Mollenkopf, Peter Dreier
Description
The central thesis of Place Matters is that economic segregation between rich and poor and the growing sprawl of American cities and suburbs are not solely the result of individual choices in free markets. Rather, these problems have been powerfully shaped by short-sighted government policies.
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