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Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects

  • ISBN-13: 9780815786016
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
  • Edited by Wolman Harold
  • Price: AUD $57.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 30/06/2008
  • Format: Paperback 240 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Urban & municipal planning [RPC]
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The goal of this book, the first in a series, is to bring policymakers, practitioners, and scholars up to speed on the state of knowledge on various aspects of urban and regional policy. What do we know about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, or experiments on key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas?
Margery Austin Turner directs the Center on Metropolitan Housing and Communities at the Urban Institute. Howard Wial is an economist in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. Harold Wolman is director of the George Washington Institute of Public Policy and professor of political science and public policy and administration at George Washington University. He is also a nonresident senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings.
1. Introduction2. "Eds & Meds" and Metropolitan Economic Development3. Low-Income Homeownership as an Asset-Building Tool4. Tax and Expenditure Limitations and Their Effects on Local Finances and Urban Areas5. Preschool Education and Human Capital Development in Central Cities6. Can Economically Integrated Neighborhoods Improve Children's Educational Outcomes?7. Spatial Development and Energy Consumption
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