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Boom Towns
Stephen J.K. Walters
其他書名
Restoring the Urban American Dream
出版
Stanford University Press
, 2014-08-27
主題
Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development
Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Business & Economics / Urban & Regional
Business & Economics / Economics / Microeconomics
Business & Economics / Free Enterprise & Capitalism
ISBN
0804792275
9780804792271
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-Jv3AwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
An economist examines the decline of American cities and offers a strategy for their rejuvenation based on respect for property rights.
American cities, once centers of opportunity, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some cities have fallen. Yet other examples, like Boston and San Francisco, show that such a fate is reversible. In
Boom Towns
, Stephen J.K. Walters diagnoses the root causes of urban decline in order to prescribe remedies that will enable cities to thrive once again.
Using vivid evocations of iconic towns and the people who helped shape their development, Walters shows how public revitalization policies often do more harm than good. He then outlines a more promising set of policies to remedy the capital shortage that continues to afflict many cities and needlessly limit their residents’ opportunities. With its fresh interpretation of one of the American quandaries of our day,
Boom Towns
offers a novel contribution to the debate about American cities and a program for their restoration.