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Shedding light on urban policy

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Urban economic models should raise the quality of debate about planning at the metropolitan level. Now research shows how this can be done.

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  1. Richard J. Arnott is in the Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, California 92521, USA,

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