City economics / Brendan O'Flaherty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Flaherty, Brendan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban economics.

Urban policy.

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

xii, 587 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This introductory but innovative textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes, homelessness, crime, illicit drugs, and economic development.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Why Proximity Is Good

Chapter 3. Cars, Pollution, And Accidents

Chapter 4. Congestion

Chapter 5. Mass Transit

Chapter 6. Land

Chapter 7. Too Many Cars? Too Much Lawn? Too Much Blight?

Chapter 8. Rules

Chapter 9. Water, Sewers, Fire, And Garbage

Chapter 10. Education

Chapter 11. Race And Space

Chapter 12. Race And Policy

Chapter 13. Housing: The Big Picture

Chapter 14. Housing And Poor People

Chapter 15. Homelessness

Chapter 16. Crime

Chapter 17. Drugs, Guns, And Alcohol

Chapter 18. Urban Economic Development

Epilogue

Glossary

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674252073

0674252071

9780674041615

0674041615

OCLC:

1049675393