Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban America by Robert P. Inman

Making towns Work brings jointly major writers and students on city the USA to supply severe views on how you can maintain wealthy, livable towns in present day fast-evolving financial system. profitable towns offer jobs, caliber faculties, secure and fresh neighborhoods, potent transportation, and alluring areas for all citizens. yet towns has to be controlled good in the event that they are to stay appealing locations to paintings, sit back, and lift a relations; in a different way citizens, businesses, and employees will depart and the social and financial merits of urban residing might be lost.

Drawing on state of the art learn within the social sciences, the participants discover optimum how one can deal with the trendy urban and suggest recommendations to latest such a lot urgent city difficulties. themes comprise the city economic climate, transportation, housing and open house, immigration, race, the affects of poverty on young children, schooling, crime, and financing and dealing with companies. The individuals exhibit how you can make towns paintings for various city constituencies, and why we nonetheless want towns regardless of the numerous demanding situations they pose. Making towns Work brings the most recent findings in city economics to policymakers, researchers, and scholars, in addition to an individual attracted to city affairs.

as well as the editor, the participants are David Card, Philip J. prepare dinner, Janet Currie, Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, Richard J. Murnane, Witold Rybczynski, Kenneth A. Small, and Jacob L. Vigdor.