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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabinowitz, Alan, author.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a work about the growth of American cities and their suburbs during the 20th century, about institutions and metropolitan governance, about real estate development and finance, about housing and the lack of it, and about the emergence and maybe the future debilitation of cities and suburbs.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Tables and Figures""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""I. Introduction""; ""1. Overview""; ""2. How Garden Cities Became the Standard for the Development of American Suburbs""; ""II. Setting the Scene""; ""3. Generations of Babbitts and Ebenezers""; ""4. Some Historical Themes and Sensibilities""; ""5. Public Lands and the Native Population""; ""6. Visions of the Twenty-first Century""; ""III. Notes on Suburbanization""; ""7. The Suburbs According to Richard T. Ely in 1902""

""8. Patterns of Transportation and Metropolitanization, 1900-2000""""IV. The Record: 1900-2000""; ""9. Structuring the Political Economy of America, 1900-30""; ""10. Restructuring America: 1930 Through World War II""; ""11. Restructuring Continued: The Fractious Postwar Period""; ""12. Destructuring America, 1968-2000""; ""V. Looking Onward""; ""13. The Metropolitan System in Gear""; ""14. Remaking America in the Twenty-first Century""; ""Appendix: "A Short History of S&Ls"""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""

Notes:

First published 2004 by M.E. Sharpe.

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ISBN:

1-315-69842-0

1-317-45280-1

9781315698427

OCLC:

929510015