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Mega-projects : the changing politics of urban public investment / Alan Altshuler, David Luberoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Altshuler, Alan A., 1936-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community development, Urban--United States.
- Community development, Urban.
- United States.
- Community development, Urban--United States--Case studies.
- Urban policy--United States.
- Urban policy.
- Urban policy--United States--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press ; Cambridge, Mass. : Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, [2003]
- Summary:
- Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, the politics of large-scale public investment in urban areas has received little scholarly attention. This book examines the forces that gave rise to a great wave of urban mega-projects in the 1950s and 1960s, that broke this wave in the years around 1970, and that have shaped a new generation of such projects in the decades since.
- Contents:
- Chapter 2 Overview: Four Political Eras 8
- Chapter 3 Mega-Projects and Urban Theory 45
- Chapter 4 The New Politics of Highways 76
- Chapter 5 Building New Airports and Expanding Older Ones 123
- Chapter 6 The Political Rebirth of Rail Transit 176
- Chapter 7 Common Patterns 219
- Chapter 8 Urban Theory Redux 248.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-320) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0815701284
- 0815701292
- OCLC:
- 50782644
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