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"""In this volume, the author analyzes the problems of urban America and presents economically sound alternatives to guide the growth and development of metropolitan areas without increasing traffic congestion and air pollution; endlessly raising taxes, or sacrificing the availability of affordable housing. Copublished with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy """

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Author:   Anthony Downs
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Brookings Institution
Edition:   Reprinted edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9780815719250

ISBN 10:   0815719256
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 December 1994
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Down's presents a wealth of data and scholarship that will be invaluable to all students of urban issues. - Journal of Economic Literature | Reading Downs on urban problems is like seeing a lawn mower operate for the first time, when you have been trimming the grass with a pair of scissors. He offers pithy summaries of the work of others, offers his own ideas, and uses a hard-headed economic perspective to assess alternatives. - Planning | Provocative, probing, philosophical, policy driven--Tony Downs poignantly defines a future vision for America's building environment. -Rep. Marcy Kaptur

"""Down's presents a wealth of data and scholarship that will be invaluable to all students of urban issues."" — Journal of Economic Literature |"" Reading Downs on urban problems is like seeing a lawn mower operate for the first time, when you have been trimming the grass with a pair of scissors. He offers pithy summaries of the work of others, offers his own ideas, and uses a hard-headed economic perspective to assess alternatives. "" — Planning |"" Provocative, probing, philosophical, policy driven--Tony Downs poignantly defines a future vision for America's building environment."" —Rep. Marcy Kaptur"

Down's presents a wealth of data and scholarship that will be invaluable to all students of urban issues. -- Journal of Economic Literature Reading Downs on urban problems is like seeing a lawn mower operate for the first time, when you have been trimming the grass with a pair of scissors. He offers pithy summaries of the work of others, offers his own ideas, and uses a hard-headed economic perspective to assess alternatives. -- Planning Provocative, probing, philosophical, policy driven--Tony Downs poignantly defines a future vision for America's building environment. --Rep. Marcy Kaptur

Down's presents a wealth of data and scholarship that will be invaluable to all students of urban issues. -- Journal of Economic Literature Reading Downs on urban problems is like seeing a lawn mower operate for the first time, when you have been trimming the grass with a pair of scissors. He offers pithy summaries of the work of others, offers his own ideas, and uses a hard-headed economic perspective to assess alternatives. -- Planning

Author Information

Anthony Downs is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. His specialties are housing, real estate, real estate finance, metropolitan planning, demographics, and transportation. His books include New Visions for Metropolitan America (Brookings/Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 1994), and Still Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion (Brookings, 2004).

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