Table of Contents

1. Cities and Towns 2. City Planning 3. Housing Policies

About the Author

William H. Lucy is the Lawrence Lewis Jr. Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Close to Power: Setting Priorities with Elected Officials and (with David L. Phillips) Tomorrow's Cities, Tomorrow's Suburbs, both published by APA Planners Press.

Reviews

Housing foreclosures are the tip of the iceberg in William Lucy's tale of a brave new metropolitan future. Historic changes in housing development, revitalization of the central city, new demographic changes, and global warming all play crucial parts in the coming transformation. Offering a sweeping vision, Foreclosing the Dream is a planner's comprehensive guide to future metropolitan development, showing us how to fit together the many changes that might seem unrelated. -Dowell Myers, professor of urban planning and demography, University of Southern California Experience is now showing that the foreclosure challenge is varied and nuanced-ranging from predatory loans to option ARMs (often accompanied by limited documentation and optimistic underwriting) to the more current situation of job losses, income reductions, and falling values. This book recognizes the breadth of that challenge and presents many useful solutions for meeting it. Conrad Egan, President and CEO, National Housing Conference