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  • Redefining Urban and Suburban Americaby Alan Berube; Bruce Katz; Robert E. Lang

    Brookings Institution Press 2005; US$ 26.95

    Provides a closer look at the unprecedented social and economic changes taking place in the nation's oldest and newest communities, and explores the implications for a diverse set of policy areas, including metropolitan development patterns, immigrant incorporation, and the promotion of affordable housing and homeownership. more...

  • Sunbelt/Frostbeltby Janet Rothenberg Pack

    Brookings Institution Press 2005; US$ 24.95

    "The product of a multiyear project looking at how government policies shape growth patterns in five metropolitan areas--Los Angeles, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Philadelphia--this book examines how these sunbelt and frostbelt metro areas have tried to use policy reform to address their individual development challenges"--Provided by publishe more...

  • Employment Deconcentration in European Metropolitan Areasby Eran Razin; Martin Dijst; Carmen Vazquez

    Springer 2007; US$ 139.99

    Spatial deconcentration of economic activities, particularly the growth of suburban office, retail and entertainment concentrations, has become a prime concern in European metropolitan areas. This book provides a cross-national comparative perspective on employment deconcentration within selected metropolitan areas in Europe. Whereas most debate over... more...

  • Synergy in Polycentric Urban Regionsby E. Meijers

    IOS Press 2007; US$ 55.00

    In understanding and explaining the functioning of cities, contemporary urban and regional studies attribute great significance to relationships between cities. This book focuses on relationships between cities in polycentric urban regions (PURs), which are regions containing proximate but distinct cities that are rather similar in size. more...

  • The New Urban Sociologyby Mark Gottdiener; Ray Hutchison

    Westview Press 2010; US$ 49.00

    Now revised and updated, this groundbreaking text utilizes an integrated sociospatial paradigm to consider the role of race, class, gender, lifestyle, economics, culture, and politics on the development of metropolitan areas. more...

  • Don't Call It Sprawlby William T. Bogart

    Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 23.00

    Bogart puts the current policy debate over urban sprawl into a broader analytical context. He explains economic ideas about the structure of metropolitan areas to people interested in understanding the pattern of growth in their city. It then uses these ideas to analyze the impact and effectiveness of various policies. more...

  • PLANNING THE MEGACITYby Christopher Silver

    Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 44.95

    In this book, the first on the planning history of Jarkarta, able expert Christopher Silver describes how planning has shaped urban development in Southeast Asia, and in particular how its largest city, Jakarta, Indonesia, was transformed from a colonial capital of approximately 150,000 in 1900 to a megacity of 12?13 million inhabitants in 2000. ... more...

  • Liquid Cityby John R Short

    Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 36.95

    Megalopolis was the name given to a Peloponnesian city that was founded around 371- 368 BCE. Though planned on a grand scale, the city failed to realize the dreams of the founders, and it declined by the late Roman period. In 1957, the renowned geographer Jean Gottman applied the term in his description of the densely populated area of the northeastern... more...

  • World Cities in a World-Systemby Paul L. Knox; Peter J. Taylor

    Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 42.00

    Seventeen essays by leading researchers in the area of world cities and the economic factors. more...