Urban economics and land use in America : the transformation of cities in the twentieth century / Alan Rabinowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabinowitz, Alan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--United States--History--20th century.

Cities and towns.

Urbanization--United States--History--20th century.

Urbanization.

Metropolitan areas--United States--History--20th century.

Metropolitan areas.

Urban economics.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2004]

Summary:

This is a book about the reality of place in America, the events and influences that led to the America we recognize today. It is a book about the growth of American cities and their suburbs during the twentieth century, about institutions and metropolitan governance, about real estate development and finance, about housing and the lack of it, about the emergence and perhaps the eventual debilitation of cities and suburbs alike. Incorporating the thinking of visionary city planners and land use economists, the author presents a lucid primer on the economics of land, its development and usage, and on how things actually get done in the real estate industry.

Contents:

2. How Garden Cities Became the Standard for the Development of American Suburbs 13

II. Setting the Scene

3. Generations of Babbitts and Ebenezers 29

4. Some Historical Themes and Sensibilities 35

5. Public Lands and the Native Population 42

6. Visions of the Twenty-first Century 49

III. Notes on Suburbanization

7. The Suburbs According to Richard T. Ely in 1902 57

8. Patterns of Transportation and Metropolitanization, 1900-2000 66

IV. The Record: 1900-2000

9. Structuring the Political Economy of America, 1900-30 87

10. Restructuring America: 1930 Through World War II 117

11. Restructuring Continued: The Fractious Postwar Period 137

12. Destructuring America, 1968-2000 156

V. Looking Onward

13. The Metropolitan System in Gear 185

14. Remaking America in the Twenty-first Century 198

Appendix "A Short History of S&Ls" 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-239) and index.

ISBN:

0765614103

OCLC:

52846452