This book is about cities. It is about city people - their origins, their problems, and the social arrangements which sustain them. It deals in the hard facts the scientist musters to document and explain, and in accounts of personal experience which enliven and enrich with the humanist's touch....

The housing market, like every market, is the product of thousands of interacting buyers and sellers driven by different interests. But unlike other markets, the housing market is able to profoundly transform the socioeconomic structure and the image of a city. Very often, changes in urban space...