City economics / Brendan O'Flaherty.
This introductory but innovative textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topic...
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Harvard University Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Why proximity is good
- 3. Cars, pollution, and accidents
- 4. Congestion
- 5. Mass transit
- 6. Land
- 7. Too many cars? Too much lawn? Too much blight?
- 8. Rules
- 9. Water, sewers, fire, and garbage
- 10. Education
- 11. Race and space
- 12. Race and policy
- 13. Housing : the big picture
- 14. Housing and poor people
- 15. Homelessness
- 16. Crime
- 17. Drugs, guns, and alcohol
- 18. Urban economic development
- Epilogue
- Glossary.