Suburban Differences and Metropolitan Policies: A Philadelphia Story

by Harold Herman, Oliver P Williams, Charles S. Liebman, et al.

The emergence of the metropolitan complex as the characteristic urban form in the United States has raised the question of the adequacy of traditional local governments to cope with changed local conditions. Most studies on this subject have focused on the attempts by suburbs to achieve metropolitan forms of government, stressing the interdependence of local units of government and the resulting need for integrative governments to formulate and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512809748
• ISBN13: 9781512809749
• Release Date: January 1965
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary