City Economics

Brendan O'Flaherty

    Preface

    Acknowledgments

    1. Introduction

    2. Why Proximity Is Good

    3. Cars, Pollution, and Accidents

    4. Congestion

    5. Mass Transit

    6. Land

    7. Too Many Cars? Too Much Lawn? Too Much Blight?

    8. Rules

    9. Water, Sewers, Fire, and Garbage

    10. Education

    11. Race and Space

    12. Race and Policy

    13. Housing: The Big Picture

    14. Housing and Poor People

    15. Homelessness

    16. Crime

    17. Drugs, Guns, and Alcohol

    18. Urban Economic Development

    19. Epilogue

    Glossary

    Index

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Brendan O'Flahertyis Professor of Economics at Columbia University.