Nation's Metropolis : : The Economy, Politics, and Development of the Washington Region /

Nation's Metropolis : : The Economy, Politics, and Development of the Washington Region / / Harold Wolman, Royce Hanson.

Nation’s Metropolis describes how the national capital region functions as a metropolitan political economy. Its authors distinguish aspects of the Washington region that reflect its characteristics as a national capital from those common to most other metropolitan regions and to other capitals. To...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
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Hanson, Royce,
Wolman, Harold,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:The City in the Twenty-First Century
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • CHAPTER 1 All Capitals Are Peculiar: Washington Is More Peculiar Than Most
  • CHAPTER 2 The National Capital Region’s Basic Industry
  • CHAPTER 3 The Federal Government and the Region’s Development
  • CHAPTER 4 The Geography of Race and Ethnicity in the National Capital Region
  • CHAPTER 5 Race, Ethnicity, and the Region’s Workforce
  • CHAPTER 6 Governing the District of Columbia
  • CHAPTER 7 Governing Suburbia
  • CHAPTER 8 Regional Institutions
  • CHAPTER 9 The Capital’s Dilemma: Economic, Racial, and Ethnic Inequality
  • CHAPTER 10 Managing the Region’s Vital Infrastructure: Transportation and Water Supply
  • CHAPTER 11 The Federal Interest in the National Capital Region
  • CHAPTER 12 Rethinking Governance of the Nation’s Metropolis
  • CHAPTER 13 A Model for the Nation?
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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