Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-first CenturyThe 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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Contents
Place Still Matters | 1 |
The Facts of Economic Segregation and Sprawl | 30 |
The Costs of Economic Segregation and Sprawl | 56 |
What Cities Can and Cannot Do to Address Poverty | 133 |
Regionalisms Old and New | 173 |
Metropolicies for the Twentyfirst Century | 201 |
A Metropolitics for the Twentyfirst Century | 230 |
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