Bøker av Robert A. Beauregard

A case for and against cities: they're the best thing we have going (environmentally, socially, in terms of tolerance) but they're also inherently destructive. How to reconcile both-Beauregard argues that we don't need to; we should accept cities as inherently full of contradictions.

Covers the 20th century discourse on urban decline in the US, arguing that its pervasiveness through the media shaped how Americans viewed cities and was instrumental in creating the staggering problems in American cities.