The Fractured Metropolis - Political Fragmentation and Metropolitan Segregation

Preface
1. Urban Political Boundaries and Metropolitan Fragmentation
2. Place, Preferences, and Information: Political Boundaries and Population Sorting
3. An Information-Based Model of Jurisdictional Tipping
4. Public Policy and Patterns of Residential Segregation
5. The Impact of Boundary Configuration
6. A Case in Point: Richmond Heights, Missouri
7. Conclusions and Implications
References
Index

About the author

Gregory R. Weiher is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory R Weiher, Gregory R. Weiher, Weiher Gregory R.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.07.1991
• EAN: 9780791405659
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0565-9
• No. of pages: 225
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 372 g
• Illustrations: Total Illustrations: 0
• Series: Suny Series the New Inequaliti; Suny Series the New Inequaliti; Suny Series, the New Inequalit; SUNY series, The New Inequalities
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban communities, Urban communities / city life