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The Metropolitan enigma : inquiries into the nature and dimensions of America's urban crisis / edited by James Q. Wilson.
LIBRA HT123 .W523
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Anchor Books ; A724.
- Anchor books ; A724
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--United States.
- Cities and towns.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 426 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- Anchor Book Edition: 1970.
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970.
- Contents:
- Preface / James Q. Wilson
- Foreword / Carl H. Madden
- The Distribution and movement of jobs and industry / John F. Kain
- Urban transportation / John R. Meyer
- Financing urban government / Dick Netzer
- Pollution and cities / Roger Revelle
- Race and migration to the American city / Charles Tilly
- Housing and national urban goals : old policies and new realities / Bernard J. Frieden
- Design and urban beauty in the central city / John Burchard
- Urban crime / Marvin E. Wolfgang
- Rioting mainly for fun and profit / Edward C. Banfield
- The Schools in the city / Theodore R. Sizer
- Poverty in cities / Daniel P. Moynihan
- Urban problems in perspective / James Q. Wilson.
- Notes:
- Prepared under the direction of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Metropolitan enigma.
- OCLC:
- 429223
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