Auteur: Susan M. Wachter

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Harriet B. Newburger is Community Development Research Advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. At the University of Pennsylvania, Eugenie L. Birch is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education and Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the School of Design, and Susan M. Wachter is Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate and Finance at The Wharton School and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the School of Design. Together, Birch and Wachter direct the Penn Institute for Urban Research and are the coeditors of Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.




14 Ebooks par Susan M. Wachter

Harriet B. Newburger & Eugenie L. Birch: Neighborhood and Life Chances
Does the place where you lived as a child affect your health as an adult? To what degree does your neighbor’s success influence your own potential? The importance of place is increasingly recognized …
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Eugenie L. Birch & Susan M. Wachter: Growing Greener Cities
Nineteenth-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted described his most famous project, the design of New York’s Central Park, as ‘a democratic development of highest significance.’ Over the …
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Susan M. Wachter & Marvin M. Smith: The American Mortgage System
Successful home ownership requires the availability of appropriate mortgage products. In the years leading up to the collapse of the housing market, home buyers frequently accepted mortgages that wer …
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Eugenie L. Birch & Susan M. Wachter: Global Urbanization
For the first time in history, the majority of the world’s population lives in urban areas. Much of this urbanization has been fueled by the rapidly growing cities of the developing world, exemplifie …
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Eugenie L. Birch & Susan M. Wachter: Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster
Disasters—natural ones, such as hurricanes, floods, or earthquakes, and unnatural ones such as terrorist attacks—are part of the American experience in the twenty-first century. The challenges of pre …
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€52.99
Afaf Ibrahim Meleis & Eugenie L. Birch: Women’s Health and the World’s Cities
Growing urbanization affects women and men in fundamentally different ways, but the relationship between gender and city environments has been ignored or misunderstood. Women and men play different r …
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Susan M. Wachter & Kimberly A. Zeuli: Revitalizing American Cities
Small and midsized cities played a key role in the Industrial Revolution in the United States as hubs for the shipping, warehousing, and distribution of manufactured products. But as the twentieth ce …
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Susan M. Wachter & Lei Ding: Shared Prosperity in America’s Communities
While the nation’s GDP has doubled in the last thirty years, significant increases in family income have been restricted to a small subset of the American population. This disjunct between national e …
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€67.99
Eugenie L. Birch & Shahana Chattaraj: Slums
Large numbers of people in urbanizing regions in the developing world live and work in unplanned settlements that grow through incremental processes of squatting and self-building. Slums: How Informa …
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Susan M. Wachter: Public Pensions and City Solvency
Underfunded pension liabilities threaten the fiscal stability of many cities. While Detroit’s bankruptcy has dominated the headlines, the problem is widespread. With ongoing battles in many localitie …
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€28.99
Susan M. Wachter & Joseph Tracy: Principles of Housing Finance Reform
In the fall of 2008, the world watched in horror as the U.S. housing finance system shattered, triggering a global financial panic and ultimately the Great Recession. Now, nearly a decade later, the …
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€72.99
Levitin Adam J. Levitin & Wachter Susan M. Wachter: Great American Housing Bubble
The definitive account of the housing bubble that caused the Great Recession-and earned Wall Street fantastic profits.The American housing bubble of the 2000s caused the worst global financial crisis …
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€61.65
Vincent J. Reina & Wendell E. Pritchett: Perspectives on Fair Housing
Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, known as the Fair Housing Act, prohibited discrimination in the sale, rent, and financing of housing based on race, religion, and national origin. However, …
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Michael L. Wachter & Susan M. Wachter: Removing Obstacles to Economic Growth
The unsatisfactory performance of the United States economy during the 1970s generated considerable debate over potential new directions for economic policy. This volume, the result of the second Wha …
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