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Review of: American Metropolitics, the New Suburban Reality by Myron Orfield

Abstract

Myron Orfield is one of the foremost contributors to the new wave of thinking about metropolitan regional planning. Orfield, a Minnesota state legislator, has developed an increasingly sophisticated analysis of spatial growth, economic disparities, demographic change, and politics within U.S. urban areas. In his new book American Metropolitics, he goes well beyond his previous writings to help lay the groundwork for a new generation of metropolitan initiatives.