Shaping suburbia : how political institutions organize urban development / Paul G. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Paul G., 1945-

Series:

Pitt series in policy and institutional studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--United States.

City planning.

United States.

Suburbs--United States.

Suburbs.

Urbanization--United States.

Urbanization.

Local government--United States.

Local government.

Physical Description:

xv, 288 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1996]

Summary:

The American metropolis has been transformed over the past quarter century.& Cities have turned inside out, with rapidly growing suburbs evolving into edge cities and technoburbs.& But not all suburbs are alike.& In Shaping Suburbia, Paul Lewis argues that a fundamental political logic underlies the patterns of suburban growth and states that the key to understanding suburbia is to understand the local governments that control it - their number, functions, and power.& Using innovative models and data analyses, Lewis shows that the relative political fragmentation of a metropolitan area plays a key part in shaping its suburbs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.

ISBN:

082293938X

0822955954

OCLC:

33947760