Book Review: Mega-Projects
8 May 2003 - 11:00am
Brookings Reviews a new book, Mega Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment.
"Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, the politics of large-scale public investment in urban areas has received little scholarly attention. In Mega-Projects, Alan A. Altshuler and David E. Luberoff examine the forces that gave rise to a great wave of urban mega-projects in the 1950s and 1960s, that broke this wave in the years around 1970, and that have shaped a new generation of such projects in the decades since."
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The Brookings Institution, October 12, 2005
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