Book Reviews
Roger Bolton of Williams College reviews “Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban America” by Robert P. Inman,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Ten papers examine the requirements for a city to be successful in today’s economy. Papers discuss the death and life of cities (Edward L. Glaeser); urban transportation policy (Kenneth A. Small); the design of the urban environment (Witold Rybczynski); urban housing markets (Joseph Gyourko); how immigration affects U.S. cities (David Card); the perplexing persistence of race (Jacob L. Vigdor); poverty among innercity children (Janet Currie); educating urban children (Richard J. Murnane); crime in the city (Philip J. Cook); and financing city services (Robert P. Inman). Inman is Richard King Mellon Professor of Finance and Economics in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Author and subject indexes.”