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Opening up the Suburbs
An Urban Strategy for America
Häftad, 1973
455 kr
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In this fast-paced, fact-filled short book, Anthony Downs takes a close look at a national problem of increasing importance—opening up the suburbs to the poor. After marshalling the arguments in favor of introducing low and moderate income housing in suburban areas where it is not now possible, he …
Urban Decline and the Future of American Cities
Av Katharine L Bradbury, Anthony Downs m. fl.
Häftad, 1982
299 kr
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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 …
Neighborhoods and Urban Development
E-bok, 2010
312 kr
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American cities are shifting collections of individual neghborhoods. Thousands of residents move every year within and among neighborhoods; their flows across a city can radically and quickly alter the character of its neighborhoods. What is behind all this fermentthe decline of one area, the …
Neighborhoods and Urban Development
Häftad, 1981
290 kr
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American cities are shifting collections of individual neghborhoods. Thousands of residents move every year within and among neighborhoods; their flows across a city can radically and quickly alter the character of its neighborhoods. What is behind all this fermentthe decline of one area, the …
Stuck in Traffic
Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion
Häftad, 1992
318 kr
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Peak-hour traffic congestion has become a major problem in most U.S. cities. In fact, a majority of residents in metropolitan and suburban areas consider congestion their most serious local problem. As citizens have become increasingly frustrated by repeated traffic delays that cost them money and …
New Visions for Metropolitan America
Häftad, 1994
290 kr
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In this volume, the author analyzes the problems of urban America and presents economically sound alternatives to guide the growth and development of metropolitan areas without increasing traffic congestion and air pollution; endlessly raising taxes, or sacrificing the availability of affordable …
Still Stuck in Traffic
Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion
Häftad, 2004
375 kr
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Congested roads waste commuters' time, cost them money, and degrade the environment. Most Americans agree that traffic congestion is the major problem in their communitiesand it only seems to be getting worse. In this revised and expanded edition of his landmark work Stuck in Traffic, Anthony …
Growth Management and Affordable Housing
Do They Conflict?
Häftad, 2004
318 kr
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Advocates of growth management and smart growth often propose policies that raise housing prices, thereby making housing less affordable to many households trying to buy or rent homes. Such policies include urban growth boundaries, zoning restrictions on multi-family housing, utility district …
Urban Decline and the Future of American Cities
Av Katharine L Bradbury, Anthony Downs m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
321 kr
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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 …
New Visions for Metropolitan America
E-bok, 2001
312 kr
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In this volume, the author analyzes the problems of urban America and presents economically sound alternatives to guide the growth and development of metropolitan areas without increasing traffic congestion and air pollution; endlessly raising taxes, or sacrificing the availability of affordable …
Stuck in Traffic
Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion
E-bok, 2000
343 kr
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Peak-hour traffic congestion has become a major problem in most U.S. cities. In fact, a majority of residents in metropolitan and suburban areas consider congestion their most serious local problem. As citizens have become increasingly frustrated by repeated traffic delays that cost them money and …
Still Stuck in Traffic
Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion
E-bok, 2005
418 kr
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Congested roads waste commuters' time, cost them money, and degrade the environment. Most Americans agree that traffic congestion is the major problem in their communitiesand it only seems to be getting worse. In this revised and expanded edition of his landmark work Stuck in Traffic , Anthony …
Growth Management and Affordable Housing
Do They Conflict?
E-bok, 2004
343 kr
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Advocates of growth management and smart growth often propose policies that raise housing prices, thereby making housing less affordable to many households trying to buy or rent homes. Such policies include urban growth boundaries, zoning restrictions on multi-family housing, utility district …
Futures for a Declining City
Simulations for the Cleveland Area
Av Kenneth A. Small, Anthony Downs m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
807 kr
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Futures for a Declining City: Simulations for the Cleveland Area discusses the processes associated with decrease in urban population or "urban decline and other measures of urban size or function. This book describes the case study that analyzes what will happen to a declining metropolitan area …
Political Theory and Public Choice
The Selected Essays of Anthony Downs Volume One
Inbunden, 1998
1749 kr
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This volume, together with a new original introduction, contains the most significant of Anthony Downs's essays written over the past four decades on politics and political theory. The articles address issues such as democracy, public choice theory, rational political decision making and political …
Urban Affairs and Urban Policy
The Selected Essays of Anthony Downs Volume Two
Inbunden, 1998
2068 kr
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This volume contains the most significant and still timely articles on urban economics, metropolitan and regional planning, real-estate economics and housing written by the noted urban economist Anthony Downs over the past four decades. The book has a new autobiographical introduction outlining …
Sprawl Costs
Economic Impacts of Unchecked Development
Av Robert Burchell, Anthony Downs m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
279 kr
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The environmental impacts of sprawling development have been well documented, but few comprehensive studies have examined its economic costs. In 1996, a team of experts undertook a multi-year study designed to provide quantitative measures of the costs and benefits of different forms of growth. …
Ökonomische Theorie der Demokratie
Av Anthony Downs, Rudolf Wildenmann
Häftad, 1993
704 kr
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Anthony Downs' inzwischen klassisches Demokratie-Modell des Wähler- und Regierungsverhaltens orientiert sich an der ökonomischen Theorie. Er nimmt an, dass politische Parteien und Wähler in der Verfolgung bestimmter, deutlich spezifizierter Ziele optimal handeln. So treffen die Wähler unter …
