Selling Cities by David P Varady

Selling Cities by David P Varady

Selling Cities spans several disciplines--economics, sociology, demography, law, and planning--and is one of the first books to examine both housing and schooling programs. It includes numerous recommendations for city revitalization; an analysis of middle-income housing programs such as tax abatements and below-market-rate mortgages; analyses of metropolitan school desegregation in the Wilmington area and magnet schools in Cincinnati; and proposals of policies to enhance cities' attraction and retention of the middle class.

"This book offers empirical insights to a critical urban policy issue: Can central cities attract middle-class homeowners? The analysis is thorough, the data interpretation is well balanced and non ideological, and the policy recommendations user-friendlyThe argument that cities can do something about decline is an important contribution to the urban policy literature." — Kenneth Wong, University of Chicago

"A really thoughtful contribution to the policy debate. The topic is extremely significant, both as a matter for policy debate and as a subject for academic inquiry."— Robert K. Whelan, University of New Orleans

David P. Varady is Professor in the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati and is the author of Neighborhood Upgrading: A Realistic Assessment, also published by SUNY Press. Jeffrey A. Raffel is Professor and Director of the Masters in Public Administration Program at the University of Delaware and is the author or coauthor of several books, including The Politics of School Desegregation: The Metropolitan Remedy in Delaware.

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ISBN 13	9780791425572
ISBN 10	0791425576
Title	Selling Cities
Author	David P Varady
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	1995-08-10
Number of pages	367
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