Inside game/outside game
Subtitle: winning strategies for saving urban America
By: David Rusk.
Publisher: Brookings Institution
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Urban policy -- United States.; Metropolitan areas -- United States.; Metropolitan government -- United States.; Land use -- United States -- Planning.; Urban poor -- Housing -- United States.; Revenue sharing -- United States.
Description: "For the past three decades, the federal government has targeted the poorest areas of American cities with a succession of antipoverty initiatives, yet these urban neighborhoods continue to decline. According to David Rusk, focusing on programs aimed at improving inner-city neighborhoods - playing the "inside game" - is a losing strategy.

Achieving real improvement requires matching the "inside game" with a strong "outside game" of regional strategies to overcome growing fiscal disparities, concentrated poverty, and urban sprawl.".

"State government action, Rusk argues, is particularly critical where regions are highly fragmented by many competing city, village, and township governments. He provides vivid success stories that demonstrate best practices for these regional strategies along with recommendations for building effective regional coalitions."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-367) and index.
"A Century Foundation book."