Norton / Mills City Life-Cycles and American Urban Policy

Studies in Urban Economics
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-1894-6
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Web PDF

City Life-Cycles and American Urban Policy is an interdisciplinary study of differential urban development in the United States since 1945 that aims to place urban policy choices in historical perspective. The book discusses the issues and establishes a framework within which relevant quantitative measurements can be interpreted. The text also describes systematic empirical tests, which typically take the form of regression equations, and traces city population changes into two proximate causes: annexation and urban growth. The reasons for annexation contrasts among the nation's largest cities; the second-city growth determinant; and the institutional explanation for fiscal differential among large cities are also considered. The book further tackles the issue of federal fiscal assistance to declining cities. Economists will find the book invaluable.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Norton, R. D.

Mills, Edwin S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;City Life-Cycles and American Urban Policy;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;8
5;Dedication;6
6;PREFACE;12
7;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;16
8;CHAPTER 1. CITIES IN EVOLUTION;20
8.1;CITIES, INNOVATION, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT;23
8.2;THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL USES OF OLDER CITIES;25
8.3;DO WE WANT A PERMANENT URBAN UNDERCLASS?;29
8.4;APPENDIX: POSTINDUSTRIALISM — FALSE PROMISES?;31
9;CHAPTER 2. MEASURING URBAN LEGACIES;36
9.1;DEFINING CITY AGE;36
9.2;THE REGIONAL DIMENSION;42
9.3;JOBS TO PEOPLE OR PEOPLE TO JOBS?;45
9.4;APPENDIX: THE POTENTIAL BIAS IN THE CITY AGE CLASSIFICATION;47
10;CHAPTER 3. WHY CITY GROWTH RATES DIFFER;50
10.1;ACCOUNTING FOR CONTRASTS IN CITY POPULATION GROWTH;51
10.2;THE DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSFORMATION OF THE OLD CITY;59
10.3;LIFE-CYCLE TENDENCIES IN THE 1970s;67
10.4;APPENDIX: CLEVELAND'S HISTORICAL LIFE-CYCLE;73
11;CHAPTER 4. CITY BORDERS AND THE TIMING OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT;82
11.1;THE ROLE OF STATE POLICY GUIDELINES;84
11.2;HOUSING ENDOWMENTS AND CITY–SUBURBAN INCOME DISPARITIES;85
11.3;THE TERRITORIAL HISTORIES OF YOUNG AND OLD CITIES;93
11.4;THE RULES OF THE GAME;100
11.5;THE SOCIAL USES OF THE INDUSTRIAL CITIES;110
11.6;TERRITORIAL LEGACIES AND CITY ECONOMIC POSITIONS;112
12;CHAPTER 5. CITIES WITHIN THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM;114
12.1;THE DETERMINANTS OF CENTRAL-CITY JOB CHANGES: 1948–1972;116
12.2;MANUFACTURING AND METROPOLITAN JOB GROWTH;122
12.3;THE FALL OF THE HEARTLAND;131
13;CHAPTER 6. THE PRODUCT CYCLE AND THE REJUVENATION QUESTION;138
13.1;CORES, CYCLES, AND THE DECENTRALIZATION OF PRODUCTION;139
13.2;THE CORE AND THE PERIPHERY IN RETROSPECT;140
13.3;THE PRODUCT CYCLE AND THE SEEDBED FUNCTION;143
13.4;THE DISPERSION OF THE SEEDBED FUNCTION;146
14;CHAPTER 7. URBAN POLITICAL LEGACIES AND CITY EXPENDITURE CONTRASTS;150
14.1;CITY–SUBURBAN CONFLICT AND LOCAL FISCAL ORGANIZATION;151
14.2;SOCIOSPATIAL SYSTEMS (REVISITED);152
14.3;THE STRUCTURE OF EXPENDITURE VARIATIONS IN FISCAL 1970;154
14.4;LOCAL FISCAL INSTITUTIONS AS THE "DETERMINANTS" OF CITY EXPENDITURES;158
14.5;THE REVENUE CONSTRAINT AND THE 1976 RANKINGS;162
14.6;THE LOGIC OF FEDERAL FISCAL RELIEF TO DECLINING CITIES;166
15;CHAPTER 8. URBAN DIFFERENCES AND FEDERAL GRANT FORMULAS;174
15.1;MEASURING CENTRAL-CITY DIFFERENCES;175
15.2;THE 1977 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS FORMULA AS AN INDEX OF CITY AGE;182
15.3;THE 1980 ALLOCATIONS UNDER THE NEW FORMULA;184
16;CHAPTER 9. THE CASE FOR DISPERSAL;188
17;NAME INDEX;192
18;SUBJECT INDEX;196