In a narrow sense, this paper has a dual focus land and the settle- ment form generally referred to as the city. My specific concern is their relationship to each other and to the structural changes that define the transformation of the larger economy. Land at base is a production factoi' whose...

The contemporary American city serves as evidence of government failure and as a focal point for crisismongering. In this paper I argue why it is important for Americans to reject the city as crisis syn- drome and to move to a view of the city as an increasingly malleable landscape formed by the...

Federal, state and local governments have spent literally hundreds of billions of dollars in the past two decades to solve the nation's urban problems. Yet these problems are now far worse than when these efforts began. It is merely to state the obvious to say that these efforts, taken...