Shaping Suburbia: How Political Institutions Organize Urban Development

by Paul G. Lewis

Book Overview

The American metropolis has been transformed over the past quarter century. Cities have turned inside out, with rapidly growing suburbs evolving into edge cities and technoburbs. But not all suburbs are alike. In Shaping Suburbia, Paul Lewis argues that a fundamental political logic underlies the patterns of suburban growth and states that the key to understanding suburbia is to understand the local governments that control it - their number, functions,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822955954
• ISBN13: 9780822955955
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"