Urban Economics and Land Use in America: The Transformation of Cities in the Twentieth Century

Alan Rabinowitz has worked and taught in the intersecting fields of urban land-use analysis, economic development, housing, city and regional planning, real estate investment, state-local finance, and community organizing for many decades. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT and an M.B.A. from Harvard. He has written a number of books and has worked in the United States and abroad for private consulting, financial and investing firms, and for governmental agencies. He currently lives with his wife in Seattle.

• Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 Overview; Chapter 2 How Garden Cities Became the Standard for the Development of American Suburbs; Part II Setting the Scene; Chapter 3 Generations of Babbitts and Ebenezers; Chapter 4 Some Historical Themes and Sensibilities; Chapter 5 Public Lands and the Native Population; Chapter 6 Visions of the Twenty-first Century; Part III Notes on Suburbanization; Chapter 7 The Suburbs According to Richard T. Ely in 1902; Chapter 8 Patterns of Transportation and Metropolitanizatlon, 1900–2000; Part IV The Record: 1900–2000; Chapter 9 Structuring the Political Economy of America, 1900–30; Chapter 10 Restructuring America; Chapter 11 Restructuring Continued; Chapter 12 Destructuring America, 1968–2000; partV Looking Onward; Chapter 13 The Metropolitan System in Gear; Chapter 14 Remaking America in the Twenty-first Century;