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American Metropolitics : The New Suburban Reality

In 1998, Myron Orfield introduced a revolutionary program for combating the seemingly inevitable decline of America's metropolitan communities. Through a combination of demographic research, state-of-the-art mapping, and resourceful, pragmatic politics, his groundbreaking book, Metropolitics, r...

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Autor principal: Orfield, Myron
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : Brookings Institution Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Metro Patterns; Schools and Tax Wealth: leading Indicators of Community Health; The New Suburban Typology; A Comparative Analysis of Segregation, Fiscal Inequality, and Sprawl; Part 2: Metro Policy; Federal Urban Policy; Fiscal Equity; Land-Use Reform; Metropolitan Governance Reform; Part 3: Metro Politics; Metropolitics and the Case for Regionalism; An Agenda for Regionalism; Appendix A: Tax-Capacity Calculations; Appendix B: Tax-Base-Sharing Simulations
  • Appendix C: Marc Projects Completed or in ProgressReference; Index; Back Cover