The economics of place-making policies

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Volumn , Issue SPRING, 2008, Pages 155-239

  Glaeser, Edward L ^a   Gottlieb, Joshua D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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