The fate of cities
Subtitle: urban America and the federal government, 1945-2000
By: Roger Biles
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9780700617685
Subjects: City planning; Kommunalpolitik; Stadtplanung; Urban policy; History
Description: This impressive treatise provides a telling critique of how in the long run the government turned a blind eye to the fate of the cities. No other work offers such a useful narrative of presidential action or inaction and Washington political maneuvering with regard to urban issues. This comprehensive history will become the standard source for understanding the development and trajectory of federal policymaking affecting America's urban centers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: The fair deal and the cities; title: Dynamic conservatism and the cities; title: The new urban frontier; title: The great society and the cities; title: Nixon and the new federalism; title: Ford and the new federalism; title: A new partnership with the cities; title: Ronald Reagan's new federalism; title: George H.W. Bush's new federalism; title: Bill Clinton and a "third way" for urban America; title: The fate of the cities.