LIBROS DEL AUTOR: anthony downs

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  • Growth Management and Affordable Housing
    Anthony Downs
    'Advocates of growth management and smart growth often propose policies that raise housing prices, thereby making housing less affordable to many households trying to buy or rent homes. Such policies include urban growth boundaries, zoning restrictions on multi-family housing, utility district lines, building permit caps, and even construction moratoria. Does this mean there is...
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    36,70 €

  • Still Stuck in Traffic
    Anthony Downs
    'Congested roads waste commuters' time, cost them money, and degrade the environment. Most Americans agree that traffic congestion is the major problem in their communities—and it only seems to be getting worse. In this revised and expanded edition of his landmark work Stuck in Traffic, Anthony Downs examines the benefits and costs of various anticongestion strategies...
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    41,23 €

  • New Visions for Metropolitan America
    Anthony Downs
    'In this volume, the author analyzes the problems of urban America and presents economically sound alternatives to guide the growth and development of metropolitan areas without increasing traffic congestion and air pollution; endlessly raising taxes, or sacrificing the availability of affordable housing.Copublished with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy' ...
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    31,60 €

  • Stuck in Traffic
    Anthony Downs
    'A Brookings Institution Press and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy publicationPeak-hour traffic congestion has become a major problem in most U.S. cities. In fact, a majority of residents in metropolitan and suburban areas consider congestion their most serious local problem. As citizens have become increasingly frustrated by repeated traffic delays that cost them money and wa...
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    37,02 €

  • Neighborhoods and Urban Development
    Anthony Downs
    'American cities are shifting collections of individual neghborhoods. Thousands of residents move every year within and among neighborhoods; their flows across a city can radically and quickly alter the character of its neighborhoods. What is behind all this ferment—the decline of one area, the revitalization of another? Can the process be made more rational? Can city neig...
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    31,89 €