Description

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Based on a survey of hundreds of officials from California cities of different sizes and socioeconomic characteristics, Custodians of Place provides a new theoretical framework that accounts for how different types of cities arrive at decisions about residential growth and economic development.

About the Author

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Paul G. Lewis is assistant professor of political science at Arizona State University. His previous book, Shaping Suburbia: How Political Institutions Organize Urban Development, was named an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice.Max Neiman is a senior resident scholar at the Institute of Government Studies, University of California, Berkeley.