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Urban Affairs and Urban Policy: The Selected Essays of Anthony Downs, Vol. 2 »

Authors: Anthony Downs
ISBN-13: 9781858987347, ISBN-10: 1858987342
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Elgar, Edward Publishing, Inc.
Date Published: January 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: Confessions of an Economic Theorist and Urban Policy Analyst
1	The Law of Peak-Hour Expressway Congestion	1
2	Alternative Futures for the American Ghetto	18
3	Housing the Urban Poor: The Economics of Various Strategies	66
4	Competition and Community Schools in Community Control of Schools	72
5	The Economics of New Towns	103
6	The Automotive Population Explosion	111
7	Living with Advanced Telecommunications	127
8	A Strategy for Designing a National Housing Policy for the Federal Government of the United States in Building Foundations: Housing and Federal Policy	148
9	The Fundamental Shift in Real Estate Finance: From a Capital Surplus in the 1980s to a Capital Shortage in the 1990s	165
10	What Have We Learned from the 1980s Experience?	184
11	Key Trends in the External Environment of Commercial Real Properties	195
12	Contrasting Strategies for the Economic Development of Metropolitan Areas	225
	Name index	265