Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Committee Report: Overview
  • Well-Being and Poverty
  • Urban Economic Trends
  • Urban Fiscal Conditions
  • Trends in Urban Governance
  • Urban Infrastructure
  • Policy Implications
  • Part II. Background papers: Income, Opportunities, and the Quality of Life of Urban Residents, Mark C. Berger and Glenn C. Blomquist
  • Family Structure, Poverty, and the Underclass, Sara McLanahan, Irwin Garfinkel, and Dorothy Watsom
  • Jobs, Migration, and Emerging Urban Mismatches, John D. Kasarda
  • Local Area Economic Growth Patterns: A Comparison of the 1980s and Previous Decades, Daniel H. Garnick
  • Fiscal Conditions in Large American Cities, 1971-1984, Philip M. Dearborn
  • State Fiscal Conditions, Steve D. Gold
  • Urban Infrastructure: Problems and Solutions, Richard R. Mudge and Kenneth I. Rubin
  • Urban Governance: The New Politics of Entrepreneurship, John J. Kirlin and Dale Rogers Marshal.