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Overview
This is a reprint of a 1990 book A comprehensive analysis of how cities grow, change,deteriorate and are resuscitated.Synopsis
This reprint of the second edition, published by Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, c1990, provides an astute, critical overview and analysis of urban development in the US. The volume's ten chapters include discussion of traditional market-oriented social science perspectives on cities and newer critical perspectives; the factors shaping American cities including corporate location decisions, developers and speculators, multiple-use projects, gentrification, auto use and highways, shopping centers, suburbs, and the government and urban development; and a final chapter on citizen protest. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR