Main entry:

Downs, Anthony.

Title & Author:

Opening up the suburbs : an urban strategy for America.

Publication:

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1973.

Description:

ix, 219 pages 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Urban development in the United States and its inherent injustice -- Economic and racial differences between central cities and suburbs -- The growing dominance of the suburbs -- The benefits of opening up the suburbs -- The costs and who should pay them -- Neighborhood linkages and residential exclusion -- Sources of opposition -- Preliminary conditions of reconciliation -- The viability of neighborhoods -- Achieving economically balanced population -- Why improving the inner city requires opening up the suburbs -- Principles of a strategy of dispersed economic integration -- Quantifying the strategy -- Policies and tactics -- Some likely objections to opening up the suburbs -- Making the choice.

Summary:

Monograph proposing an urban development strategy for the USA based on the introduction of low income housing to the suburbs - asserts that the relief of urban area poverty can best be achieved through the dispersal of lower class and minority group persons and their integration into economically balanced suburban communitys, and comments on urban planning and urban renewal strategies, etc. References and statistical tables.

ISBN:

0300014643
9780300014648

Subject:

Schweiz Eidgenössischer Vorort
Cities and towns United States.
Suburbs United States.
Urban development United States.
Villes États-Unis.
Banlieues États-Unis.
71.14 urban society.
Cities and towns
Suburbs
Stadtentwicklung
Vorort
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Agglomeraties.
Sociaal-economische ontwikkeling.
urban development.
low income.
housing.
suburb.
urban area.
poverty.
lower class.
minority group.
community.
urban planning.
urban renewal.
statistical table.
Urban policy United States.
Discrimination in housing United States.
développement urbain.
faible revenu.
logement.
banlieue.
zone urbaine.
pauvreté
classe inférieure.
groupe minoritaire.
communauté
aménagement urbain.
rénovation urbaine.
tableau statistique.
desarrollo urbano.
bajos ingresos.
vivienda.
suburbio.
zona urbana.
pobreza.
clase baja.
grupo minoritario.
comunidad.
planificación urbana.
renovación urbana.
cuadros estadísticos.
United States
USA.
Etats-Unis.
Estados Unidos.

Form/genre:

History
reference.
référence bibliographique.
referencia.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 47545
Call No.: ID:89-B6709
Status: Available