Making Cities Work brings together leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in today's fast-evolving economy. Successful cities provide jobs, quality schools, safe and clean neighborhoods, effective transportation,...

With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the "creative city" became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and...

This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning. The authors focus on the interface between these two sub-disciplines that have historically had an uneasy relationship.

From Chicago to L.A. critically examines some of the major precepts of what some refer to as the Los Angeles School or urban theory. The contributors to this work breaks new ground in defining an alternative agenda for urban studies

chapter Introduction -- part Part I An Examination of Existing Theories of Community Economic Growth and Decline -- chapter 1 Competing Theories of Community Economic Growth and Decline -- chapter 2 A Brief History of Economic Growth and Decline -- chapter 3 Growth versus Development -- chapter...

"This book explores the links currently existing between town planning processes and the provision of both lifelong learning and livelihoods. It also examines the appropriateness of current cities vis-à-vis the types of learning required for living during the twenty-first century and the nature...