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Private property and public power : eminent domain in Philadelphia /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Becher, Deborah Lynn, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Urban renewal > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Case studies.
Eminent domain > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Case studies.
Homeowners > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Case studies.
Real estate investment > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Case studies.
City planning > Moral and ethical aspects > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Case studies.
Land use, Urban > Government policy > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Case studies.
City planning > Moral and ethical aspects.
Eminent domain.
Homeowners.
Land use, Urban > Government policy.
Real estate investment.
Urban renewal.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Investment and government legitimacy
  • The policy and politics of urban redevelopment
  • Rhetoric without a cause: beyond libertarian and left cries of abuse
  • American Street I: from badlands to promised lands
  • American Street II: from promises to protests
  • Jefferson Square I: competing visions of investment protection
  • Jefferson Square II: legitimacy through reconciled visions
  • Compensating for property by recognizing investments
  • The politics of property.