Authors:Carolyn Adams, David Bartelt, David Elesh, Ira Goldst
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: philadelphia, voices, vision, inequality, metropolitan, region, restructuring, divisions
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-08-28
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1592138977
ISBN-13: 9781592138975

Book DescriptionRestructuring the Philadelphia Region offers one of the most comprehensive and careful investigations written to date about metropolitan inequalities in America’s large urban regions. Moving beyond simplistic analyses of cities-versus-suburbs, the authors use a large and unique data set to discover the special patterns of opportunity in greater Philadelphia, a sprawling, complex metropolitan region consisting of more than 350 separate localities. With each community operating its own public services and competing to attract residents and businesses, the places people live off