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Mega-projects : the changing politics of urban public investment /

"In Mega-Projects Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff analyze the unprecedented wave of large-scale (mega- ) public investments that occurred in American cities during the 1950s and 1960s; the social upheavals they triggered, which derailed large numbers of projects during the late 1960s and earl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Altshuler, Alan A., 1936-
Autor Corporativo: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Otros Autores: Luberoff, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Cambridge, Mass. : Brookings Institution Press ; Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Overview: four political eras
  • Mega-projects and urban theory
  • The new politics of highways
  • Building new airports and expanding older ones
  • The political rebirth of rail transit
  • Common patterns
  • Urban theory redux
  • What next?