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Shaping suburbia : how political institutions organize urban development /
The American metropolis has been transformed over the past quarter century. Cities have turned inside out, with rapidly growing suburbs evolving into edge cities and technoburbs. But not all suburbs are alike. In Shaping Suburbia, Paul Lewis argues that a fundamental political logic underlies the pa...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
©1996.
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| Series: | Pitt series in policy and institutional studies.
University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Shaping the New Suburbia: An Introduction
- Actors, Preferences, and Political Institutions in Urban Development
- Political Structure and Urban Outcomes: An Aggregate Analysis
- The Institutional Context for Development in Two Regions: Comparing Portland and Denver
- Denver: Suburban Assertiveness, Centrifugal Development
- Portland: A Regionalized Politics Shapes Growth
- Conclusion: Political Economy and Metropolitan Growth
- Appendix 1: Metropolitan Areas in the Data Set
- Appendix 2: Denver: The Setting
- Appendix 3: Portland: The Setting
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.