Appendix B: Measuring Value Change in Twice-Sold Properties

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Tables XI
4. Figures XVII
5. Preface XIX
6. Part I. Up the Down Escalator: The Worker as Homeowner
7. Introduction 3
8. 1. Mobility and Entrapment in a Market Metropolis 11
9. 2. The Uneven Development of Metropolitan Boston, 1630–1980 36
10. 3. Real Estate Values: Boston and Three Inner Suburbs 81
11. 4. Real Estate Value Changes: Metropolitan Patterns, 1870–1970 107
12. 5. The Reality of Suburban Entrapment 134
13. Part II. Lawns for the Pawns? The Homeowner as Worker
14. Introduction 169
15. 6. Blaming the Victim for Homeowner Discontent 171
16. 7. Land Developers Channelers and Beneficiaries 195
17. 8. Fiscal Balkanization and Suburban Devaluation 224
18. 9. Origins of the Suburban Compromise 264
19. 10. The Compromise Evaluated 291
20. 11. Compromise Lost 311
21. Appendix A: A Principal Components Analysis of Suburbanization 351
22. Appendix B: Measuring Value Change in Twice-Sold Properties 359
23. Appendix C: Assessment-to-Sales Ratios, 1900 and 1925 370
24. Appendix D: Measures of Social Class 383
25. Appendix E: Government and Transportation 389
26. Appendix F: Suburbanization and the Socialist Party Base 400
27. Notes 407
28. Select Bibliography 437
29. Index 451