New Visions for Metropolitan America
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:1st Dec '94
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
" Provocative, probing, philosophical, policy driven--Tony Downs poignantly defines a future vision for America's building environment." --Rep. Marcy Kaptur
In this volume, the author analyzes the problems of urban America and presents economically sound alternatives to guide the growth and development of metropolitan areas without increasing traffic congestion and air pollution; endlessly raising taxes, or sacrificing the availability of affordable housing."
In this volume, the author analyzes the problems of urban America and presents economically sound alternatives to guide the growth and development of metropolitan areas without increasing traffic congestion and air pollution; endlessly raising taxes, or sacrificing the availability of affordable housing.
Copublished with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
""Down's presents a wealth of data and scholarship that will be invaluable to all students of urban issues." — Journal of Economic Literature
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Reading Downs on urban problems is like seeing a lawn mower operate for the first time, when you have been trimming the grass with a pair of scissors. He offers pithy summaries of the work of others, offers his own ideas, and uses a hard-headed economic perspective to assess alternatives.
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Provocative, probing, philosophical, policy driven--Tony Downs poignantly defines a future vision for America's building environment." —Rep. Marcy Kaptur
ISBN: 9780815719250
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 227g
272 pages