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Author
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders—mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists—are stepping up and powering the nation forward. These state and local leaders are doing the hard work to grow more jobs and make their communities more prosperous, and they're investing in...
Series
Johns Hopkins paperbacks ; JH-45
Publisher
Published for Resources for the Future by the Johns Hopkins Press
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Belt Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"American suburbs are not the homogeneous places we sometimes take them for. Today's suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse with as many Democratic as Republican voters, a growing population of renters, and rising poverty. The cliché of white picket fences is well past its expiration date. The history of suburbia is equally surprising: American suburbs were once fertile ground for utopian planning, communal living, socially-conscious...
