Urban Economics and Land Use in America: The Transformation of Cities in the Twentieth Century: The Transformation of Cities in the Twentieth Century

by Rabinowitz,Alan

• ISBN13: 9780765614117
• ISBN10: 0765614111
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-03-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Author Biography

Alan Rabinowitz has worked and taught in the intersecting fields of urban land-use analysis, economic development, housing, city and regional planning, real estate investment, state-local finance, and community organizing for many decades. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT and an M.B.A. from Harvard. He has written a number of books and has worked in the United States and abroad for private consulting, financial and investing firms, and for governmental agencies. He currently lives with his wife in Seattle

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
I. Introduction
1. Overview	3	(10)
2. How Garden Cities Became the Standard for the Development of American Suburbs	13	(16)
II. Setting the Scene
3. Generations of Babbitts and Ebenezers	29	(6)
4. Some Historical Themes and Sensibilities	35	(7)
5. Public Lands and the Native Population	42	(7)
6. Visions of the Twenty-first Century	49	(8)
III. Notes on Suburbanization
7. The Suburbs According to Richard T. Ely in 1902	57	(9)
8. Patterns of Transportation and Metropolitanization, 1900-2000	66	(21)
IV. The Record: 1900-2000
9. Structuring the Political Economy of America, 1900-30	87	(30)
10. Restructuring America: 1930 Through World War II	117	(20)
11. Restructuring Continued: The Fractious Postwar Period	137	(19)
12. Destructuring America, 1968-2000	156	(29)
V. Looking Onward
13. The Metropolitan System in Gear	185	(13)
14. Remaking America in the Twenty-first Century	198	(15)
Appendix: "A Short History of S&Ls"	213	(6)
Notes	219	(22)
Index	241	(18)
About the Author	259