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Includes preface by the authors looking at developments in the study of urban planning during the twenty-year life of this influential work.

Trade Review
"Among a rare breed." Journal Of Regional Science

Table of Contents
Preface to the 20th Anniversary Edition
Preface to the First Edition

1 The Social Construction of Cities
2 Places as Commodities
3 The City as a Growth Machine
4 Homes: Exchange and Sentiment in the
Neighborhood
5 How Government Matters
6 Overcoming Resistance to Value-free
Development
7 The Dependent Future

References
Name Index
Subject lndex

Urban Fortunes The Political Economy of Place

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 28/08/2007
      ISBN13: 9780520254282, 978-0520254282
      ISBN10: 0520254287
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      Society and culture: general Urban communities / city life

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Includes preface by the authors looking at developments in the study of urban planning during the twenty-year life of this influential work.

      Trade Review
      "Among a rare breed." Journal Of Regional Science

      Table of Contents
      Preface to the 20th Anniversary Edition
      Preface to the First Edition

      1 The Social Construction of Cities
      2 Places as Commodities
      3 The City as a Growth Machine
      4 Homes: Exchange and Sentiment in the
      Neighborhood
      5 How Government Matters
      6 Overcoming Resistance to Value-free
      Development
      7 The Dependent Future

      References
      Name Index
      Subject lndex

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