The Economy of Cities

Publisher:  Vintage Books, New York, USA
Year Published:  1970
Pages:  268pp   Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX7399

Ideas about what makes cities rich or poor, how cities grow, and how city growth affects national economies.

Abstract: 
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Table of Contents

1. Cities First - Rural Development Later
2. How New Work Begins
3. The Valuable Inefficiencies and Impracticalities of Cities
4. How Cities Start Growing
5. Explosive City Growth
6. How Large Cities Generate Exports
7. Capital for City Economic Development
8. Some Patterns of Future Development

Appendices
Index

Subject Headings

• Agriculture
• Black Issues
• Capitalism
• Capitalism/History of
• Cities
• Colonialism
• Communism
• Division of Labour
• Economic Development
• Economic Growth
• Economic History
• Export Trade
• Exports
• History of Capitalism
• Immigrants
• Immigration
• Importing
• London, England
• Manufacturing
• Marx, Karl
• New York City
• Rural Economic Issues
• Rural Transition
• Towns
• Trade
• Underdevelopment
• Urban History
• Urbanization
• Work