Affluent towns often deliver high-quality public services to their residents. I estimate the willingness to pay to live in a high-income suburb, above and beyond the demand of wealthy neighbors, by measuring changes in housing prices across city-suburban borders as the income disparity between...

Introduction -- The Need -- Cities and Anti-Urban Backlash -- The New Deal -- The Greenbelt Idea Unfolds -- Opposition -- Designing the Towns -- Civic Art -- Leisure -- The Homes -- The People -- The Legacy -- Epilogue.

"Beyond the Megacity connects and reconnects the global debate on the contemporary urban condition to the Latin American tradition of seeing, considering, and theorizing urbanization from the margins. It develops the approach of “peripheral urbanization” as a way to integrate the theoretical...

Affluent towns often deliver high-quality public services to their residents. I estimate the willingness to pay to live in a high-income suburb, above and beyond the demand of wealthy neighbors, by measuring changes in housing prices across city-suburban borders as the income disparity between...