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Urban policy and the exterior city : Federal, State, and corporate impacts upon major cities /

Urban Policy and the Exterior City: Federal, State and Corporate Impacts upon Major Cities emphasizes the idea that problems that riddle cities are not matters of local choice, but are rooted in the larger environment of American society. This book is divided into three main topics- the dynamic of t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Savitch, H. V.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Pergamon Press, �1979.
Colección:Pergamon policy studies on urban affairs.
Pergamon policy studies ; no. 41.
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  • Front Cover; Urban Policy and the Exterior City: Federal, State and Corporate Impacts upon Major Cities; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PRIVATISM AND REINFORCING AND MELIORIST POLICY STYLES; URBAN ANALYSIS AND THE SELECTION OF PUBLIC POLICIES; Part I: The Dynamic of the Exterior City; Chapter 1. The Emergence of the Exterior City; THE GENESIS OF THE INTERIOR CITY; THE GENESIS OF THE EXTERIOR CITY; Chapter 2. Political Economy and Policy: How Cities Are Doomed; PRIVATISM AND THE LIBERAL STATE.
  • PUBLIC POWER AS A CONDUIT FOR PRIVATISMTHE CUMULATIVE POWER OF PRIVATISM AND ITS CULTURE; Part II; Exterior Citiesin the Arena of National Government; Chapter 3. Reinforcing and Meliorist Prototypes: The Long but Withered Arms of the White House; REINFORCING AND MELIORIST TYPES; ROOSEVELT AND EISENHOWER ASMELIORIST AND REINFORCING PROTOTYPES; COMPARING MELIORIST AND REINFORCING PROTOTYPES; Chapter 4. Kennedy and Johnson: The Meliorist White House and the Politics of Urban Promise; THE SPUTTERING CHALLENGE OFJOHN F. KENNEDY; LYNDON JOHNSON: THE QUINTESSENTIAL MELIORIST.
  • Chapter 5. Nixon and Ford: The Reinforcing White House and the Politics of Urban DisengagementRICHARD NIXON'S NEW FEDERALISM AS THE WAY OUT; THE FORD WHITE HOUSE AS A SEQUEL TO THE REINFORCING PRESIDENCY; Chapter 6. Rowing with Muffled Oars: Making Urban Policy on Capitol Hill; THE FLATTENED PYRAMID OF CONGRESS AND ITS CENTRIFUGAL PULLS; A CLOSER LOOK AT THE FLATTENED PYRAMID: URBAN-ORIENTED COMMITTEES AND THEIR POLICY DISPOSITION; TAKING MASS TRANSITON A CONGRESSIONAL RIDE; APPENDIX: KEY URBAN ISSUES VOTED ON BY HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEES.
  • Part III: Exterior Citiesin the Arena of Middle GovernmentChapter 7. Cities, States, and the Environment of Urban Policy; URBAN POLICY AT THE JUNCTURE OF A VEN DIAGRAM; SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE EXTERIOR CITY; THE STATES AS MELIORIST AND REINFORCING POLICYMAKERS; THE MELIORIST ME A CULPA: PICKING UP THE PIECES AFTERWARD; CASES IN HOUSING AND MASS TRANSIT: UDC AND BART; Chapter 8. Cities, Suburbs, and the Colonial Syndrome; CITIES, SUBURBS, AND THE IDEA OF DOMESTIC COLONIALISM; THE SYNDROME REFRACTED AS SUBURBAN BLIGHT OR SPRAWL; Epilogue; Notes; Index; About the Author.