Download or read book Urban Problems and Community Development written by Ronald F. Ferguson and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, concerned governments, businesses, and civic groups have launched ambitious programs of community development designed to halt, and even reverse, decades of urban decline. But while massive amounts of effort and money are being dedicated to improving the inner-cities, two important questions have gone unanswered: Can community development actually help solve long-standing urban problems? And, based on social science analyses, what kinds of initiatives can make a difference? This book surveys what we currently know and what we need to know about community development's past, current, and potential contributions. The authors--economists, sociologists, political scientists, and a historian--define community development broadly to include all capacity building (including social, intellectual, physical, financial, and political assets) aimed at improving the quality of life in low- to moderate-income neighborhoods. The book addresses the history of urban development strategies, the politics of resource allocation, business and workforce development, housing, community development corporations, informal social organizations, schooling, and public security.
Download or read book Urban Problems and Public Policy written by Robert L. Lineberry and published by University Press of Amer. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume cover the locational impact of local policies, trends in urban planning, problems associated with interstate metropolitan areas, and studies of the role of various groups in the policy process. Originally published in 1975 by D.C. Heath and Company. Co-published with the Policy Studies Organization.
Download or read book Urban Problems and Public Policy Choices written by Washington Operations Research Council and published by New York : Praeger. This book was released on 1975 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originated as the proceedings of a symposium on urban growth and development ... held in Washington, D.C. in 1973.
Download or read book Urban Problems and Public Policy written by Robert L. Lineberry and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Sprawl written by Gregory D. Squires and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 2002 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Sprawl is not simply a development that undercuts the quality of life for suburbanites. It has raised alarms across the nation, as fair housing advocates, environmentalists, land use planners, and even many suburban employers who cannot find the workers they need, have recognized that the costs go far beyond aesthetics. Despite the agreement that something needs to be done, there is no consensus on what works. Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses assembles leading scholars who analyze the major causes and consequences of urban sprawl and the policy initiatives that are being explored in response to these developments.
Download or read book Urban Politics and Public Policy written by Robert L. Lineberry and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban and Regional Policies for Metropolitan Livability written by Michael S Hamilton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's public policy arena the regional level is gaining increased attention as problems in policy and service delivery continue to spill over traditional urban government boundaries. This authoritative work focuses on the growing role of regions in addressing and resolving local governance problems."Urban and Regional Policies for Metropolitan Livability" provides a concise, up-to-date, and systematic treatment of the problems and issues involved in urban and regional policy concerns. Each policy chapter is written by a respected expert in the area, and the book covers all the key policy issues that confront contemporary metropolitan areas, including transportation, the environment, affordable housing, crime, employment, poverty, education, and regional governance. Each chapter outlines an issue, which is followed by current thinking on problem diagnosis and problem solving, as well as the prognosis for future policy success.
Download or read book The Future of National Urban Policy written by Marshall Kaplan and published by Duke Press Policy Studies. This book was released on 1990 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars, policymakers, and journalists explore the condition of America's cities, focusing on the policies of the previous five presidential administrations, and offer suggestions for the future. Karl Marx once said that the point was not to understand the world but to change it. This volume offers little more than vague hopes and good intentions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Urban America and Public Policies written by Marian Lief Palley and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Urban Problems written by Harry Beller Yoshpe and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cities Transformed written by Mark R. Montgomery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the developing world is critical to those countries - their societies, economies, and environments. The benefits from urbanization cannot be overlooked, but the speed and sheer scale of this transformation presents many challenges. In this uniquely thorough and authoritative volume, 16 of the world's leading scholars on urban population and development have worked together to produce the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of the changes taking place in cities and their implications and impacts. They focus on population dynamics, social and economic differentiation, fertility and reproductive health, mortality and morbidity, labor force, and urban governance. As many national governments decentralize and devolve their functions, the nature of urban management and governance is undergoing fundamental transformation, with programs in poverty alleviation, health, education, and public services increasingly being deposited in the hands of untested municipal and regional governments. Cities Transformed identifies a new class of policy maker emerging to take up the growing responsibilities. Drawing from a wide variety of data sources, many of them previously inaccessible, this essential text will become the benchmark for all involved in city-level research, policy, planning, and investment decisions. The National Research Council is a private, non-profit institution based in Washington, DC, providing services to the US government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The editors are members of the Council's Panel on Urban Population Dynamics.
Download or read book People Plans and Policies written by Herbert J. Gans and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-16 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary theme of this collection of essays is that the cities' basic problems are poverty and racism, and until these concerns are addressed by bringing about racial equality, creating jobs, and instituting other reforms, the generally low quality of urban life will persist. Gans argues that the individual must work to alter society. He believes that not only must parents have jobs to improve their children's school performance, but that the country needs a modernized "New Deal," a more labor-intensive economy, and a thirty-two hour work week to achieve full employment. Other controversial ideas presented in this book include Gans's opposition to the whole notion of an underclass, which he feels is the latest way for the nonpoor to unjustly label the poor as undeserving. He also believes that poverty continues to plague society because it is often useful to the nonpoor. He is critical of architecture that aims above all to be aesthetic or to make philosophical statements, is doubtful that planners can or should try to reform our social or personal lives, and thinks we should concentrate on achieving individual public policies until we learn how to properly plan as a society.
Download or read book Urban Problems and Public Policy Choices written by Joel Bergsman and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Poverty in the Global South written by Diana Mitlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is compounded by the lack of voice and influence that low income groups have in these official spheres.
Download or read book Urban Policy Reconsidered written by Charles C. Euchner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-07-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, America has experienced an urban renaissance. Cities as varied as New York, Chicago and Boston are no longer seen as ungovernable and doomed to crime and blight. However, they still face formidable problems. Urban Policy Reconsidered is a comprehensive overview of the issues and problems facing our cities today and cover every important issue in urban affairs. What is poverty? What is economic development? What is education? What is crime? As well as covering all of these fundamental topics in-depth, the author propose a communitarian approach to addressing the many problems of our cities. This book will be the manual for anyone interested in understanding urban policy.
Download or read book The Ungovernable City written by Douglas Yates and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1978 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We confront an urban wilderness more formidable and resistant and in some ways more frightening than the wilderness faced by the pilgrims or the pioneers." What Robert Kennedy warned in 1966 is, ten years later, more starkly true than ever. As controversies about American cities rage, this critique takes a hard, unflattering look at the urban plight. Those who expect facile answers, utopian visions, or panaceas should, however, be cautioned: the book offers none. What it does offer is an interior view of urban policy making and an example of the most astute kind of policy study.Professor Yates argues that the urban policy-making system is no longer capable of producing coherent decisions, developing effective policies, or implementing programs. lack of money is not the underlying cause. The real culprit has to do with contradictions fundamental to cities as political and social entities. Historically, cities evolved as "melting pots," developing haphazardly into loose structures composed of numerous antagonistic interests and forces. Urban management has largely consisted of hasty responses to crisis situations rather than long-range planning. City governments are at once too decentralized for overall policy making and too centralized to be truly responsive to its citizenry. By the same token they are both too independent of and too dependent on higher-level government (state, federal) for assistance.The basic function and distinctive feature of urban government is its service delivery. But here the system breaks down, for the mayor does not entirely control the administrators, and administrators cannot control the "street-level" employees--policemen, firemen, public school teachers. Fragmentation, instability--these are the result. The remedies are not simple and obvious, as Yates repeatedly makes clear. But if penetrating to the core of the problem is at all beneficial, The Ungovernable City is a step in the right direction.
Download or read book Urban Sprawl and Public Health written by Howard Frumkin and published by . This book was released on 2004-07-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Urban Sprawl and Public Health' offers a survey of the impact that the built environment can have on the health of the people who inhabit our cities. The authors go on to suggest ways in which the design of cities could be improved & have a positive impact on the well-being of their citizens.
