Product Description: Theory and practice in city planning have never been known for their compatibility. The planner, dealing with stresses such as the personalities at work in a board meeting and coping with the realities of fund raising, political realities, and the like, can find little guidance in the theory of the trade...read more

Product Description: The age of the great explorers of the New World is long past; its sole remnants are the surveillance satellites which graph the final remaining area uncertainties. The equivalent in our own time of the early geographers’ and naturalists’ target is the increasing effort to comprehend the dynamics of a society whose complexity makes description, much less prediction, increasingly difficult...read more

Product Description: This is the long-awaited update of the authors' classic America's Housing: Prospects and Problems. The first version has long been the most authoritative effort in the field. Now this brief, efficient, one-volume work contains all the most up-to-date data available to chart housing progress and need...read more

Product Description: The suburban growth corridors are the new frontier of America's economic future. But who are the firms that dominate the highway grids? How do they find their locations and labor force, what is their service spillover, the multiplier of banking, legal and accounting services, and all their other necessities? And what of markets? Rent levels and search patterns of the tenants are examined in detail...read more

Product Description: Why are Denver and Houston floundering? Yet down­town Chicago is holding its own and Manhattan is the hottest real estate market in the country? Is frost com­ing to the Sunbelt? Where are the new markets? What does Hi-Tech really mean to development? Is American industry doomed to follow England? The baker's dozen of essays in this new book provides an unparalleled range of insight and hard-nosed answers...read more

Examines the effects of legalized casino gambling in Atlantic City on employment, housing, crime, economic growth, and social conditions

Examines the effects of legalized casino gambling in Atlantic City on employment, housing, crime, economic growth, and social conditions

Product Description: Boom, bust, boom...? The rapidity of change in America from the exuberant 1960s to the stagflation of the 1970s to the recovery of 1983-84 has been so startling as to confuse the American investor, planner, marketer, developer—and plain citizen...read more

Product Description: This volume represents the most current thinking on the course and direction of future planning. The collection of invited papers frorri the field's foremost experts are grouped by four key areas: Physical Planning In Change: The Role of Environmental Planning Social Planning In Change: Practical Applications of Social Sensitivity Public Policy Planning In Change: Macroplannlng versus Local Control Economic Planning In Change: National Planning—Demand versus Supply Emphases The concepts and practices embodied here here are key inputs for the planning practitioner and the academic...read more

Product Description: Population, jobs, and buying-power changes are the locomotives of development. The long-term trends that undergird them are just beginning to be revealed in demographic data. These trends are outlined here in an easily understood, essential book...read more

Product Description: This important work brings together the new tools necessary for the prime urban development initiative of the 1980s. The Enterprise Zone, the most important new concept in job vitalization, was formulated in England, ad­vocated by Reagan, and has the sup­port of both parties...read more

Product Description: Assessing the prospects for multifamily rental housing during the ec­onomically troubled 1980s, this volume examines the issues and dilem­mas confronting both tenants and landlords. Sternlieb and Hughes pro­vide current demographic projections, national and regional supply profiles, and operating cost patterns...read more

Product Description: Are there potentials in central city revitalization? What role will the federal government play in determining future retail locational choices? Shopping center development has never been more popular—or more hazardous than it is today...read more