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 | #1008216 in Books |  Brookings Institution Press and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy |  2003-04-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.79 x5.98l,1.17 | File Name: 0815701292 | 352 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| In-depth analysis of urban rojects and their prospects for the future|By Don G. Schley|Altschuler and Luberoff provide an in-depth analysis of urban mega-projects focusing on three major categories: highways, airports, and rail transit. They preface their treatment a first-rate discussion and analysis of the theoretical framework and evolving political context in which urban m| ||"If you are looking for an economic quotient to keep a sports team in town, 'Mega-Projects' convincingly argues there isn't one. That, of course, is the end of the argument for some, but not the end of the argument for American cities." —James Vesely,


Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, the politics of large-scale public investment in and around major American cities has received little scholarly attention. In MEGA-PROJECTS, Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff analyze the unprecedented wave of large-scale (mega-) public investments that occurred in American cities during the 1950s and 1960s; the social upheavals they triggered, which derailed large numbers of projects during the late 196...


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