num_pages: 312
description: The City Builders is a compelling examination of the forces that created the property boom of the eighties and the bust of the nineties. The book investigates the mentalities of the real-estate developers, financial institutions, and public officials who first poured enormous resources into physical redevelopment then suddenly saw the market collapse .
language: English
title: The City Builders: Property, Politics, and Planning in London and New York
titlecomplete: The City Builders: Property, Politics, and Planning in London and New York (Studies in Urban and Social Change)
genres: Cities, Geography, Urban Planning
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Wiley-Blackwell