Don’t call it sprawl: Metropolitan Structure in the 21st Century 21世纪大都市的结构
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作者： William T. Bogart 著
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出版时间： 2006-9-1字数：版次： 1页数： 218印刷时间： 2006/09/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780521860918包装： 精装内容简介
In Don't Call It Sprawl, the current policy debate over urban sprawl is put into a broader analytical and historical context. The book informs people about the causes and implications of the changing metropolitan structure rather than trying to persuade them to adopt a panacea to all perceived problems. Bogart explains modern economic ideas about the structure of metropolitan areas to people interested in understanding and influencing the pattern of growth in their city. Much of the debate about sprawl has been driven by a fundamental lack of understanding of the structure, functioning, and evolution of modern metropolitan areas. The book analyzes ways in which suburbs and cities (trading places) trade goods and services with each other. This approach helps us better understand commuting decisions, housing location, business location, and the impact of public policy in such areas as downtown redevelopment and public school reform.
Bogart puts the current policy debate over urban sprawl into a broader analytical context. He explains economic ideas about the structure of metropolitan areas to people interested in understanding the pattern of growth in their city. It then uses these ideas to analyze the impact and effectiveness of various policies.
作者简介
William T. (Tom) Bogart has been Dean of Academic Affairs at York College of Pennsylvania since 2002. From 1990 to 2002, he was a member of the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) faculty in the Weatherhead School of Management. While at CWRU, he served as chair of the Department of Economics and as a research associate of the Center for Regional Economic Issues. His work was recognized with the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the National Tax Association. Previous publications include, The Economics of Cities and Suburbs (1998). He lives in York, Pennsylvania with his wife and daughter.
目录
Acknowledgments
1 The World of Today
Why My View Is Different
What Does a Typical Metropolitan Area Look Like?
Mental Models of Metropolitan Areas
New Metropolitan Structure: Atlanta and Los Angeles
(and Cleveland and Pittsburgh!)
It's Not Sprawl or Edge Cities: It's Trading Places
Plan of the Book
2 Making Things Better: The Importance of Flexibility
Efficiency and Equity: How Economists Evaluate Outcomes
Policy Design in Action: A Regional Plan
Crusading Policy versus Persuading Policy
Entrepreneurship in Metropolitan Areas
The Present as a Weighted Average of the Past
Utopian Metropolitan Structure
3 Are We There Yet?
Evolving Metropolitan Structure
Theories of Metropolitan Structure
Specialization and Trade
Patterns of Trade
What Is Urban Sprawl?
Sprawl and the Urban Fringe
Urban Growth and Structural Change:
The Neverending Story
4 Trading Places
Specialization in Production: Evidence from Employment Centers
Size Distribution of Employment Centers
Characterizing Commuting to Metropolitan Employment Centers
Municipalities as Small Countries
Structure and Specialization, Not Sprawl
5 Downtown: A Place to Work, a Place to Visit, a Place to Live
Downtown as a Trading Place
Central City Economic Development
Stadium Construction as a Downtown Development Tool
Living for the City
Declaring Victory: When Can a Local Government Stop Subsidizing Activity?
6 How Zoning Matters
Externalities
How Zoning Is Like a Tax
Zoning and Trade
Analyzing the Impact of Zoning
Toward a Dynamic Model
Does Zoning Have a Major Impact on Urban Structure?
Alternatives to Zoning
What Houston Suggests about Zoning
Eminent Domain and Development
7 Love the Density, Hate the Congestion
Commuting: How Bad Is It?
Controlling Congestion
Travel Forecasts and Reducing Congestion
Municipal Waste
8 Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Local Government
Intrametropolitan Competition for Businesses
Regionalism and Getting an Education
Effective Change: Targeting Subsidies to the Undeserving
Regional Service Provision
Heterogeneity through Homogeneity: Neighborhood
Associations
Winners and Losers: The View from Ancient Rome
9 The World of Tomorrow
Never Capitulate, but Always Recapitulate
Encouraging Trade among Trading Places
Twenty-First-Century Metropolitan Structure: Good
or Bad?
Twenty-First-Century Metropolitan Areas: A Chance
to Reinvent the City?
The New Urban Hierarchy
Notes
References
Index
