The Future of National Urban Policy

The Future of National Urban Policybrings together scholars, policymakers, and journalists to explore the condition of America's cities. The authors focus on policies of the previous five presidential administrations to examine the history of urban policy and offer suggestions for its future. Individual chapters address a variety of topics, including housing, employment, education, the infrastructure of cities, and public policy.

Preface	p. v
Introduction A Response to Urban Distress: Challenge and Opportunity	p. 1
Urban Need and Distress -- A Broad Overview	p. 11
City Need and Distress in the United States	p. 13
The New Anatomy Of Urban Fiscal Problems Roy Bahl, William Duncombe, And Wanda Schulman	p. 32
Urban Problems -- A Microscopic Look at Key Areas of Concern	p. 59
Reengaging State And Federal Policymakers in the Problems Of Urban Education	p. 61
Urban Poverty: Where Do We Go from Here?	p. 89
Rental Housing in the United States: A Focus on Metropolitan And Urban Areas	p. 101
Urban Infrastructure and City Budgeting: Elements of a National Urban Policy	p. 131
Boston -- an Urban Policy Prototype Or a Continuing Urban Policy Problem?	p. 156
	p. 169
National Urban Policy: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going?	p. 171
Chasing Urban Policy: A Critical Retrospect	p. 185
Policy Liberalism, National Community Liberalism, and the Prospects For National Urban Policy	p. 202
American Neighborhood Policies: Mixed Results and Uneven Evaluations	p. 210
The Rise and Fall of National Urban Policy: The Fiscal Dimension	p. 225
A Nonurban Policy: Recent Public Policy Shifts Affecting Cities	p. 235
Institutions And Institutional Capacity	p. 251
Hud in the Nineties: Doubt-Ability and Do-Ability	p. 253
Who Gets the Jobs in the New Downtown?	p. 277
The Shifting Focus Of Neighborhood Groups: The Massachusetts Experience	p. 293
Building a New Low-Income Housing Industry: a Growing Role for The Nonprofit Sector	p. 303
Looking to the Future: a Set of Nonurban Urban Policy Initiatives	p. 323
Has America Lost Its Social Conscience -- And Can It Get It Back?	p. 325
Eliciting an Effective and Necessary Urban Policy Response	p. 346
Urban Policy in the Nineties and Beyond: The Need for New Approaches	p. 351
Notes	p. 369
Index	p. 397
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