附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Metropolitan development : patterns, problems, causes, policy proposals / Janet Rothenberg Pack -- Chicago : metropolitan decentralization / Wim Wiewel, Joseph Persky, and Kimberly Schaffer -- Los Angeles : region by design / Jennifer Wolch [and others] -- Philadelphia : spatial economic disparities / Joseph Gyourko and Anita A. Summers -- Phoenix : dealing with fast growth / Arizona State University Research Team -- Pittsburgh : economic restructuring and regional development patterns, 1880-2000 / Robert E. Gleeson and Jerry Paytas.
摘要:"The product of a multiyear project looking at how government policies shape growth patterns in five metropolitan areas--Los Angeles, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Philadelphia--this book examines how these sunbelt and frostbelt metro areas have tried to use policy reform to address their individual development challenges"--Provided by publisher.