Shaky Palaces ISBN: 9780231890397 Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Columbia University Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Studies the process of neighborhood formation in Metropolitan Boston to better understand the economic and social forces that shape local politics. It discusses how suburbanization, fiscal balkanization, and an ideology of perpetual social mobility entrapped and to some extent controlled the people of Boston and other American cities.