Cities And Space: The Future Use Of Urban Land
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What happens when the relentless expansion of modern cities collides with the finite reality of land? Cities and Space: The Future Use of Urban Land confronts this urgent question head-on, assembling a landmark collection of essays that chronicles the mounting pressures of urbanisation and the complex decisions shaping how metropolitan land is allocated, consumed, and contested. Edited by economist and urban planner Lowdon Wingo, Jr., the volume presents the contributions of leading scholars and policy thinkers of its era, examining the economic, social, and governmental forces that determine whether cities sprawl outward, build upward, or decay from within. It argues with conviction that urban land is not merely a commodity but a public resource whose stewardship demands rigorous analysis and bold planning vision. Published under the Johns Hopkins Paperbacks imprint — the scholarly arm of one of America's most distinguished university presses — this anthology stands as a foundational text in the fields of urban economics and city planning. Wingo's editorial hand brings coherence to a broad set of perspectives, weaving together threads of transportation policy, land economics, and civic governance into a unified and sobering portrait of the mid-twentieth-century American city. For anyone seeking to understand how today's urban crises were seeded decades ago, this volume poses a question that remains as urgent as ever: who should decide the fate of urban space, and to what end?
Author: Lowdon Wingo, Jr.
Format: Paperback
Genre: Architecture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What happens when the relentless expansion of modern cities collides with the finite reality of land? Cities and Space: The Future Use of Urban Land confronts this urgent question head-on, assembling a landmark collection of essays that chronicles the mounting pressures of urbanisation and the complex decisions shaping how metropolitan land is allocated, consumed, and contested. Edited by economist and urban planner Lowdon Wingo, Jr., the volume presents the contributions of leading scholars and policy thinkers of its era, examining the economic, social, and governmental forces that determine whether cities sprawl outward, build upward, or decay from within. It argues with conviction that urban land is not merely a commodity but a public resource whose stewardship demands rigorous analysis and bold planning vision. Published under the Johns Hopkins Paperbacks imprint — the scholarly arm of one of America's most distinguished university presses — this anthology stands as a foundational text in the fields of urban economics and city planning. Wingo's editorial hand brings coherence to a broad set of perspectives, weaving together threads of transportation policy, land economics, and civic governance into a unified and sobering portrait of the mid-twentieth-century American city. For anyone seeking to understand how today's urban crises were seeded decades ago, this volume poses a question that remains as urgent as ever: who should decide the fate of urban space, and to what end?