Preparing for the Urban Future
Subtitle: Global Pressures and Local Forces (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Contributors: Michael A. Cohen (Editor); Blair A. Ruble (Editor); Joseph S. Tulchin (Editor)
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Published: March 6, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780943875781
Subjects: Human geography; Urban communities; Sociology - Urban; Congresses; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Urban Policy; Politics/International Relations; Sociology, Urban; International Relations - General; Business & Economics / Government & Business; Cities and towns; Urban Economics
First sentence: In her controversial 1984 volume Cities and the Wealth of Nations, Jane Jacobs launched a bitter polemical attack on the dogmas of macroeconomics.