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Region

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Description for Region Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 53 colour plates, 80 maps, 27 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RPC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1293.

The Twin Cities region contains 11 counties, 300 cities and townships, and 1,700 unique combinations of tax rates and public services. Historically, this fragmentation has made it extremely difficult to address the social, economic, and environmental problems that affect all parts of the region, yet the Minneapolis and St. Paul area has generally been held in high esteem as a model of regional cooperation. How do policy planners make it work-and is it working well enough?

In Region Myron Orfield and Thomas Luce examine both the successes and shortcomings of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Council's regional planning and policy. Detailing the ... Read more

Confronting unsettling-sometimes shocking-realities of life in the Twin Cities, Orfield and Luce highlight the urgent need to create thriving integrated neighborhoods and job growth throughout the region, as well as the near impossibility of desegregating our neighborhoods and schools. Throughout this detailed and deeply researched work, they analyze the wide impact of planning failures and the promise of successful growth, and ultimately put forth trenchant policy recommendations for a better future-one where we live up to our social, environmental, and political ideals.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816665563
SKU
V9780816665563
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About Orfield, Myron; Luce, Thomas F.
Myron Orfield is executive director of the Institute on Race and Poverty and associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Metropolitics and American Metropolitics. Thomas Luce is director of research at the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota.

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