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Boom towns restoring the urban American dream

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford Stanford University Press 2014Description: xii, 210p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780804781633
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.7WAL
Summary: American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or at Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline 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.
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Book Book UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma Sustainable Development 307.7WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available UR006976

Includes bibliographical references and index.

American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or at Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline 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.

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