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020 _a9781783475254
082 _a338.9
_bCHE
100 _aCheshire, Paul C. & others
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245 _aUrban economics and urban policy : challenging conventional policy wisdom
260 _aCheltenham
_bEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
_c2016
300 _axii,237p.
505 _aCONTENTS 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
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