TY - GEN AU - Cheshire, Paul C. & others TI - Urban economics and urban policy : challenging conventional policy wisdom SN - 9781783475254 U1 - 338.9 PY - 2016/// CY - Cheltenham PB - Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. KW - N1 - CONTENTS List of Figures vi List of Tables vii List of acronyms and abbreviations viii Foreword by Ed Glaeser x PART 1 : How do Urban Economies Work? Theory and Evidence 1. Introduction 1 2. Urban Economic Performance 11 3. Residential Segregation and People Sorting Within Cities 54 PART 2 : Land Use Regulation : The Need to be Guided by Markets But Not Obey Them 4. Planning for a Housing Crisis: Or the Alchemy by Which We Turn Houses into Gold 79 5. Planning and Economic Performance 104 6. Planning: Reforms that Might Work and Ones that Won't 127 PART 3 : Can Governance Make a Difference and What Can Policy Do? 7. Devolution, City Governance and Economic Performance 157 8. Urban Policies 185 PART IV : Conclusions : What Conventional Policy Wisdoms Do We Challenge? 9. Conclusions 221 Index 231 ER -