| Description |
208 pages ; 19 cm. |
| Series |
Reference shelf ; v. 51, no. 1.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 201-208. |
| Contents |
pt.1. Bankrupt, cities in the seventies: Whatever happened to River City? / James E. Kunde and David Buzzards (Charles F. Kettering Foundation) -- New York, the night the lights went on / Thomas Powers (Commonweal) -- The city as a sandbox / George Sternlieb (Public Interest) -- Cities in crisis / Richard Nathan ... [et al.] (League of Women Voters of the United States) -- pt.2. Snowbelt and sunbelt, twilight of the north: The regional shift / George Sternlieb and James W. Hughes (Nation's Cities) -- Houston, darling of the southern tier / Dennis A. Williams and Nicholas Proffitt (Newsweek) -- What New York can learn from Texas / Bernard Weinstein (Society) -- What Uncle Sam did for Texas / Susan and Norman Fainstein (Society) -- The myth of the sunbelt / David C. Perry and Alfred J. Watkins (New York TImes) -- Mixed weather in the sunbelt / William K. Stevens (New York Times) -- pt.3. Strategies for survival: Rebuilding downtown / Roger M. Williams ( Saturday Review) -- The case against urban dinosaurs / William G. Conway (Saturday Review) -- Preserving the heart of America's old cities / Michael H. McManus (Washington Post) -- Community self-help, fighting disinvestment / John A. Collins (Christian Century) -- Urban homesteading, residential houses / Mark T. Zimmerman (Nation) -- Displaced by renovation / David Merkowitz (Washington Post) -- Assaulting the suburbs / William G. Conway (Saturday Review) -- |
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pt.4. The role of the federal government: Unplanned effects of federal programs, preview of a RAND report / Mark J. Kasoff (Nation's Cities) -- Needed, a national growth policy / James L. Sundquist (Brookings Bulletin) -- The range of federal programs / Richard Nathan ... [et al.] (League of Women Voters of the United States) -- Time is running out / Henry S. Reuss (Vital Speeches of the Day) -- HUD's costly subsidy plan (Business Week) -- pt.5. The Carter program: A new partnership / Jimmy Carter (New York Times) -- Highlights of the Carter program / Robert Reinhold (New York Times) -- Our romance with production / Herbert J. Gans (Challenge) -- Carter's development "bank": business incentives and jobs / Ann Crittenden (New York TImes) -- Who can save our cities? / Marvin Stone (U.S. News & World Report) |
| Subjects |
Cities and towns -- United States.
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Social problems.
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Urban policy -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Geller, Evelyn.
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| Add Title |
The Reference shelf ; v. 51, no. 1 |
| ISBN |
0824206312 |
| OCLC # |
4771445 |
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