The New Urban Reality

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Paul E. Peterson
Brookings Institution Press, 07‏/06‏/2001 - 301 من الصفحات

America's inner cities, particularly those in older industrial metropolitan areas, have declined sharply in both population and employment over the past two decades. How much of this change is due to technological advances in transportation, communication, and manufacturing? How much of it is due to the changing racial composition of the central cities? Can any set of public policies retard or reverse the decline of the industrial cities?

This book presents an interdisciplinary collection of papers addressing these questions. In the introduction, editor Paul E. Peterson discusses the ways in which adverse economic and racial changes interact and urges more realistic federal policies to counteract these changes. In Part 1, "The Processes of Urban Growth and Decline," sociologist John D. Kasarda analyzes the growing mismatch between inner-city jobs and residents, and geographer Brian J. L. Berry discusses the economics of inner-city gentrification. Racial change is the subject of Part II: sociologist Elijah Anderson depicts race relations in a gentrifying inner-city neighborhood; sociologist William J. Wilson delineates the social and economic problems of inner-city blacks; and political scientist Gary Orfield calls for bold efforts to reverse the continuing urban pattern of racial segregation. Part III looks at the way cities have responded to economic and racial change. Economist Kenneth A. Small discusses the impact of transportation policy; political scientist Herbert Jacob finds that increasing efforts to control urban crime have not been effective; and sociologist Terry Nichols Clark emphasizes the effect of political factors on the fiscal condition of cities. Economist Anthony Downs, reviewing the issues raised by the other authors, sees little hope for racial integration as the central social strategy for solving urban problems, but does see hope in the internal resources of America's minority communities.

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and Minority Opportunities
33
The Evolving Structure and Functions of Americas Cities
36
Effects on Job Opportunities
43
Changing Demographic Compositions
51
Consequences of Minority Confinement
56
Targeting Anchoring and Demographic Disequilibria
61
Spatial Inequities and Equality of Opportunity
62
New Urban Policies for New Urban Realities
63
Successful Racial Change
184
The Policy Choice
189
Transportation and Urban Change
197
Trends Affecting Urban Development
199
Determinants of Urban Travel Behavior
204
Effects of Transportation on Urban Development
207
Past and Present Policies
214
Future Policies
217

Helping Those Caught in the Web of Change
65
Islands of Renewal in Seas of Decay
69
Studies of Revitalization
71
The Gentrification Hypothesis
83
A New Interpretation
88
Conclusions
95
Race and Neighborhood Transition
99
A Community in Transition
101
Sharing the Public Space
108
Conclusion
125
The Urban Underclass in Advanced Industrial Society
129
The Tangle of Pathology in the Inner City
133
Toward a Comprehensive Explanation
141
Conclusion
159
Ghettoization and Its Alternatives
161
Ghettoization and Suburbanization
162
Chicagos History of Racial Change
164
Consequences of Segregation
174
Policy Responses to Racial Change
181
Conclusion
222
Policy Responses to Crime
225
Crime and Response in American Cities
226
Linkages
244
Conclusion
249
How Different Are Snow Belt and Sun Belt Cities?
253
Modeling Fiscal Policymaking
263
A Model to Test the Factors Affecting Urban Fiscal Policy
265
Summary and Conclusion
278
The Future of Industrial Cities
281
Is Severe Decline Reversible in the Near Future?
283
The Double Transformation of Big Cities with Large Minority Populations
284
The Role of Political Forces in the Transformation
286
Possible Remedies for the Adverse Effects
287
Some Realistic Conclusions
289
Future Strategies That Might Benefit BigCity Minorities
291
Conclusions
293
Index
295
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Paul E. Peterson is director of the Governmental Studies program at Brookings.

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