Place matters
Subtitle: metropolitics for the twenty-first century
By: Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf & Todd Swanstrom
Contributors: Mollenkopf, John H., 1946- author; Swanstrom, Todd, author
Edition: Third edition, revised.
Series: Studies in government and public policy; Studies in government and public policy
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9780700619276
Subjects: Urban poor; Federal-city relations; Urban policy; Metropolitan areas
Description: "Thoroughly revised and updated for its third edition, Place Matters examines the major trends and problems shaping our cities and suburbs, explores a range of policy solutions to address them, and looks closely at the potential political coalitions needed to put the country's "urban crisis" back on the public agenda"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of Tables and Illustrations; title: Preface; title: 1. Place Still Matters; title: 2. The Facts of Economic Segregation and Sprawl; title: 3. The Costs of Economic Segregation and Sprawl; title: 4. The Roads Not Taken: How Government Policies Promote Economic Segregation and Suburban Sprawl; title: 5. From FDR to Obama: A Brief History of Federal Urban Policy; title: 6. City Limits: What Can Motown Teach Us about Wealth, Poverty, and Municiple Finance?; title: 7. Urban Politics Matter: Liberal, Progressive, and Conservative Cities; title: 8. Regionalisms Old and New; title: 9. Metropolicies for the Twenty-First Century; title: 10. Crossing the City Line: A Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century; title: Notes; title: Index.