Urban economics and urban policy : challenging conventional policy wisdom /
"In this bold, exciting and readable volume, Paul C. Cheshire, Max Nathan and Henry G. Overman illustrate the insights that recent economic research brings to our understanding of cities, and the lessons for urban policymaking. The authors present new evidence on the fundamental importance of c...
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Cheltenham, UK :
Edward Elgar,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. How do urban economies work? : theory and evidence. Urban economic performance
- Residential segregation and people sorting within cities
- Part II. Land use regulation : the need to be guided by markets but not obey them. Planning for a housing crisis : or the alchemy by which we turn houses into gold
- Planning and economic performance
- Planning : reforms that might work and ones that won't
- Part III. Can governance make a difference and what can policy do?. Devolution, city governance and economic performance
- Urban policies
- Part IV. Conclusions : what conventional policy wisdoms do we challenge?. Conclusions.