Taking sides
Subtitle: clashing views in urban studies
By: selected, edited, and with introductions by Myron A. Levine
Series: Taking sides; Taking sides
Publisher: McGraw Hill Contemporary Learning Series
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780078050435
Subjects: Cities and towns; Urban Sociology
Other titles: Clashing views in urban studies; Urban studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Does the new immigration burden cities? --; title: Does neighborhood gentrification benefit the inner-city poor? --; title: Should state governments impose strong limitations on the ability of cities to use eminent domain powers for economic development purposes? --; title: Are public subsidies for sports stadiums a good investment by cities? --; title: Should cities rely on tax increment financing (TIF) as a primary tool in their efforts to promote local economic development? --; title: Does broken-windows policing reduce crime? --; title: Are school vouchers overrated as a strategy for reforming public education? --; title: Do charter schools improve education? --; title: Should federal programs seek to deconcentrate inner-city poverty? --; title: Should section 8 housing vouchers continue to serve as the backbone of the federal government's assisted housing efforts? --; title: Did the government's regulation of lending institutions under the community reinvestment act lead to the mortgage foreclosure crisis? --; title: Should U.S. cities adopt a system of "congestion pricing" to "tame" traffic? --; title: Should the United States invest in high-speed intercity rail? --; title: Is urban sprawl a sufficiently important problem to merit government corrective action? --; title: Do Portland-style smart growth policies raise housing prices and hurt urban livability? --; title: Are environmentalists too often the unwitting allies of suburban exclusionists? --; title: Does new urbanism represent a viable strategy that can transform suburban communities? --; title: Should urban policy in the United States be guided by the model of the European city?