City Abandonment

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dewar, Margaret ^a   Weber, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Equity; Residential disinvestment; Urban abandonment; Urban planning; Urban redevelopment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923387368     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195374995.013.0028     Document Type: Chapter

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