New Visions for Metropolitan America (Book)

Author(s): Downs, Anthony
Publication Date: January 1994

$38.95; 256 pages; Inventory ID 1926-4; English; Hardcover; ISBN 0-8157-1926-4

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Abstract

American's preference for low-density development has generated severe traffic and pollution problems for central cities and has driven both urban and suburban housing prices beyond affordable levels. Downs offers thoughtful insights on the social and political problems facing metropolitan areas across the U.S. He proposes three alternative visions that reverse the trent to sprawl by emphasizing a regional sense of community rather than one oriented to a single jurisdiction.