Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century

by John H. Mollenkopf, Peter Dreier, Todd Swanstrom, et al.

Book Overview

How can the United States create the political will to address our major urban problems--poverty, unemployment, crime, traffic congestion, toxic pollution, education, energy consumption, and housing, among others? That's the basic question addressed by the new edition of this award-winning book. Thoroughly revised and updated for its third edition, Place Matters examines the major trends and problems shaping our cities and suburbs, explores...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700619275
• ISBN13: 9780700619276
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

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This book details in stark clarity the dilemma facing our urban environment today. We ignore it's lessons at our peril. Place Matters shows how we have systematically set up a system of the haves and have nots. Literally a tale of two cities. It is crucially important that we involve ourselves in the electoral process because who we elect most definitely determines how wealth and power are distributed in the United States of America. This book is a cogent coherent collection of mind blowing data about discriminatory social engineering against our urban environment.