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New Urban Development : Looking Back to See Forward /

New Urban Development traces how locally induced housing cost increases led federal policy-makers to toss out the safeguards against lending excesses that had been put in place during the 1930s. But the story begins much earlier, during the colonial era, continuing up through the mortgage collapse t...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Gruen, Claude
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2012, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:New Urban Development traces how locally induced housing cost increases led federal policy-makers to toss out the safeguards against lending excesses that had been put in place during the 1930s. But the story begins much earlier, during the colonial era, continuing up through the mortgage collapse that ushered in the recession of 2008. In his sweeping history of these issues, Gruen considers gentrification, environmentalism, sprawl, anti-sprawl movements, and more. His clarification of how urban development change occurs backs up his recommendations for increasing the production of housing and replacing obsolete commercial and industrial spaces with development that serves the twenty-first-century economy. New Urban Development specifies thirteen changes to policies at the federal, state, and local levels to provide better and less expensive urban housing, desirable neighborhoods, and thriving workplaces across the country.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (244 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780813554198