ISBN: 0815710542

During the past two decades, most large American cities have lost population, yet some have continued to grow. Does this trend foreshadow the ?death" of our largest cities? Or is urban de… Mehr…

During the past two decades, most large American cities have lost population, yet some have continued to grow. Does this trend foreshadow the ?death" of our largest cities? Or is urban decline a temporary phenomenon likely to be reversed by high energy costs? This ambitious book tackles these questions by analyzing the nature and extent of urban decline and growth of large U.S. cities. It includes and integrates five substudies. The first examines urban decline and some of its long-run causes, and whether cities that are losing population are performing their economic and social functions less effectively. The second substudy is a multivariate analysis of factors associated with the growth and decline of 121 large U.S. cities and their metropolitan areas. Although its causes vary, urban decline appears closely related to processes that have both upgraded individual households and generated serious problems for city governments and poor neighborhoods. A third substudy shows that neighborhood decline is part of a systematic process related to the influx of poor households into metropolitan areas. Another substudy simulates five antidecline strategies in a single metropolitan area, that of Cleveland, Ohio, and finds that severe decline (occurring in about one-fourth of large U.S. cities) could be slowed, though not stopped by vigorous policies. From the last substudy it emerges that, even if gasoline prices rose to over $2 a gallon, resulting adjustments by commuters and fi business and investing,economics,political science,politics and social sciences,popular economics,social sciences,sociology,specific demographics,urban Business & Investing, Brookings Institution Press<

ISBN: 9780815710547

During the past two decades, most large American cities have lost population, yet some have continued to grow. Does this trend foreshadow the 'death' of our largest cities? Or is urban de… Mehr…

During the past two decades, most large American cities have lost population, yet some have continued to grow. Does this trend foreshadow the 'death' of our largest cities? Or is urban decline a temporary phenomenon likely to be reversed by high energy costs? Media > Book, [PU: Brookings Institution Press]<

ISBN: 9780815710547

During the past two decades, most large American cities have lost population, yet some have continued to grow. Does this trend foreshadow the 'death' of our largest cities? Or is urban de… Mehr…

During the past two decades, most large American cities have lost population, yet some have continued to grow. Does this trend foreshadow the 'death' of our largest cities? Or is urban decline a temporary phenomenon likely to be reversed by high energy costs? Media >, [PU: Brookings Institution Press]<

1982, ISBN: 9780815710547

Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, c1982. First Printing. good, ex-lib.. 24 cm, 309, usual library markings, some wear to boards, Brookings Institution

1982, ISBN: 0815710542

[EAN: 9780815710547], [PU: Brookings Institution, Washington], vg/vg, review copy. Town Planning; 11763., Books