Place Matters: Metropolitics For The Twenty-First Century,9780700613649

Place Matters: Metropolitics For The Twenty-First Century

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780700613649
ISBN10: 0700613641
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-01-28
Publisher(s): Univ Pr of Kansas
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Author Biography

Peter Dreier, Dr. E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Program at Occidental College, is coauthor of Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together and The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City John Mollenkopf is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and sociology and director of the Center for Urban Research at CUNY Graduate Center Todd Swanstrom is professor of public policy at Saint Louis University. He is the author of The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich, and the Challenge of Urban Populism, the coauthor of City Politics, and coeditor of Beyond the City Limits

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Illustrations
ix
Preface xi
Place Still Matters
1(36)
The Facts of Economic Segregation and Sprawl
37(27)
The Costs of Economic Segregation and Sprawl
64(39)
The Roads Not Taken: How Government Policies Promote Economic Segregation and Suburban Sprawl
103(49)
Urban Politics and City Limits: What Cities Can and Cannot Do to Address Poverty
152(64)
Regionalisms Old and New
216(31)
Metropolicies for the Twenty-first Century
247(29)
Crossing the City Line: A Metropolitics for the Twenty-first Century
276(35)
Notes 311(98)
Index 409

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