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Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011 “A masterpiece.” —Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics “Burst

"The best study so far about the virtual collapse in the late twentieth century of South Jersey's largest city."--New York Times.

An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.

Although rarely explored in academic literature, most inhabitants and visitors interact with an urban landscape on a day-to-day basis is on the street level. St