American Metropolitics : the New Suburban Reality.

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Orfield, Myron
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington : Brookings Institution Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Metropolitan areas > United States.
Metropolitan government > United States.
Urban policy > United States.
Sociology, Urban > United States.
Politique urbaine > États-Unis.
Sociologie urbaine > États-Unis.
Metropolitan areas
Metropolitan government
Sociology, Urban
Urban policy
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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