Urban Economics and Urban Policy: Challenging Conventional Policy Wisdom
Language: English
Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014
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- Title
- Urban Economics and Urban Policy: Challenging Conventional Policy Wisdom
- Author
- Cheshire, Paul C.; Nathan, Max; Overman, Henry G.
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1781952515
- ISBN 13
- 9781781952511
- Item weight
- 522 grams
- Dimensions
- 17.15 centimeters width by 24.77 centimeters height by 1.91 centimeters depth
It is remarkable that our cities have been so successful despite the many shortcomings of urban policies and governance. These shortcomings appear in both rich and poor countries. Many powerful policies intended to influence urban development and spatial differences have been developed since the late 1940s, but they have been subject to little rigorous economic evaluation. The authors help us to understand why economic growth has emerged so unevenly across space and why this pattern persists. The failure to understand the forces leading to uneven development underlies the ineffectiveness of many current urban policies. The authors conclude that future urban policies need to take better account of the forces that drive unevenness and that their success should be judged by their impact on people, not on places - or buildings.
This groundbreaking book will prove to be an invaluable resource and a rewarding read for academics, practitioners and policymakers interested in the economics of urban policy, urban planning and development, as well as international studies and innovation.
Contents:
Foreword by Ed Glaeser
1. Introduction
2. Urban Economic Performance
3. Residential Segregation and People Sorting Within Cities
4. Planning for a Housing Crisis: Or the Alchemy by Which We Turn Houses into Gold
5. Planning and Economic Performance
6. Planning: Reforms that Might Work and Ones that Wont
7. Devolution, City Governance and Economic Performance
8. Urban Policies
9. Conclusions
Index
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Corner of a Foreign Field
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