Sunbelt/frostbelt
Subtitle: public policies and market forces in metropolitan development
By: Janet Rothenberg Pack, editor
Contributors: Pack, Janet Rothenberg
Series: James A. Johnson metro series
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Metropolitan areas -- United States; Metropolitan areas -- Government policy -- United States; Regional planning -- United States; Cities and towns -- United States -- Growth
Description: "The product of a multiyear project looking at how government policies shape growth patterns in five metropolitan areas--Los Angeles, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Philadelphia--this book examines how these sunbelt and frostbelt metro areas have tried to use policy reform to address their individual development challenges"--Provided by publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Metropolitan development : patterns, problems, causes, policy proposals / Janet Rothenberg Pack; title: Chicago : metropolitan decentralization / Wim Wiewel, Joseph Persky, and Kimberly Schaffer; title: Los Angeles : region by design / Jennifer Wolch ... [et al.]; title: Philadelphia : spatial economic disparities / Joseph Gyourko and Anita A. Summers; title: Phoenix : dealing with fast growth / Arizona State University Research Team; title: Pittsburgh : economic restructuring and regional development patterns, 1880-2000 / Robert E. Gleeson and Jerry Paytas