"Restructuring the Philadelphia Region" offers one of the most comprehensive and careful investigations written to date about metropolitan inequalities in America's large urban regions. Moving beyond simplistic analyses of cities-versus-suburbs, the authors use a large and unique data set to discover the special patterns of opportunity in greater Philadelphia, a sprawling, complex metropolitan region consisting of more than 350 separate localities. With each community operating its own public services and competing to attract residents and businesses, the places people live offer them...
"Restructuring the Philadelphia Region" offers one of the most comprehensive and careful investigations written to date about metropolitan inequalitie...
Presents the investigations about metropolitan inequalities in America's large urban regions. This title discovers the special patterns of opportunity in greater Philadelphia, a sprawling, complex metropolitan region consisting of over 350 separate localities. It also portrays the region's uneven development.
Presents the investigations about metropolitan inequalities in America's large urban regions. This title discovers the special patterns of opportunity...
As college and university administrators expand and develop their urban campuses, they have also become developers - and primary drivers - of neighbourhood change. But how do institutions contend with urban real estate needs, revitalization opportunities, and community outreach? And how do the residents benefit? Pushing Back the Gates provides a lively discussion of neighbourhood-level perspectives of the dynamic changes brought about by institutions' urban planning efforts. Harley Etienne outlines the rationale for university-driven development and neighbourhood revitalization balanced by...
As college and university administrators expand and develop their urban campuses, they have also become developers - and primary drivers - of neighbou...
As college and university administrators expand and develop their urban campuses, they have also become developers of neighborhoods and primary drivers of change. But how do institutions contend with urban real estate needs, revitalization opportunities, and community outreach? And how do the residents benefit? "Pushing Back the Gates" provides a lively discussion of neighborhood-level perspectives of the dynamic changes brought about by institutions' urban planning efforts.In the series "Philadelphia Voices, Philadelphia Visions, "edited by David W. Bartelt"
As college and university administrators expand and develop their urban campuses, they have also become developers of neighborhoods and primary driver...
