Research Catalog

Title

The Mature metropolis / edited by Charles L. Leven.

Publication

Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, ©1978.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Leven, Charles L., 1928-
• Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Institute for Urban and Regional Studies.

Description

x, 319 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Cities and towns
• Cities
• Villes
• cities
• Metropolitan areas
• Metropolitan areas > Economic aspects
• Local government
• Urban policy
• Metropolitan regions Social aspects Conference proceedings

Note

• Contains essays commissioned by the Institute for Urban and Regional Studies, Washington University, St. Louis, for a symposium held in St. Louis on June 6-8, 1977.

Contents

The emergence of maturity in metropolis / Charles L. Leven -- The current halt in the metropolitan phenomenon / William Alonso -- Social processes and social policy in the stable metropolis / James S. Coleman -- The declining metropolis : patterns, problems and policies in Britain and mainland Europe / Peter Hall and David Metcalf -- Metropolitan development in Poland and implications for America / Piotr Korcelli -- The central city in the postindustrial age / Harvey S. Perloff -- Tomorrow's agglomeration economies / Norman Macrae -- Transportation and land use in the mature metropolis / Alex Anas and Leon N. Moses -- Environmental problems in the mature metropolis / Edwin S. Mills, Daniel Feenberg, and Randall Zisler -- Metropolitan governance and the mature metropolis / Alan K. Campbell -- The role of neighborhoods in the mature metropolis / M. Leanne Lachman and Anthony Downs -- Public sector investment strategies in the mature metropolis / Dick Netzer -- "Basic" economic activities in metropolis / Harry W. Richardson -- The economically disadvantaged in the mature metropolis / Robert C. Holland and Charles L. Leven.

ISBN

• 0669018449
• 9780669018448

LCCN

77010363

OCLC

• ocm03609146
• 3609146
• SCSB-209936

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library