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| Preface | |
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| About the Author | |
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| The Paradox of Urban Governance | |
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| Our Urban Areas: Landscape of Contrast | |
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| Why Do Our Cities Fail? | |
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| Why Urban Areas Need More Government | |
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| Small Towns and Urban Governments | |
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| How Our Urban Areas Respond to the Need for Government | |
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| Summary | |
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| Contours of America's Urban Areas | |
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| The Social and Economic Structure of American Cities | |
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| The Walking City | |
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| The Industrial City, 1880-1920 | |
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| The Suburban City, 1950-1970 | |
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| A Cacophony of Change: The American City 1970-2000 | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Conflicting Theories of American Urban Government | |
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| The Founding Fathers and Urban Government | |
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| The Practice of Government: City Government and the Age of Industrialization | |
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| Summary: American Urban Government--A Conflict of Ideas | |
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| References | |
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| Organizing the Government of Today | |
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| The Progressive Movement and the Evils of the Machine | |
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| Changing Structures of Government | |
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| Reform Governments: Have They Made a Difference? | |
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| Analyzing City Government | |
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| Representation and Reform Governments | |
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| Separating Policy and Administration: Council-Management Government Policy-Making | |
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| Structure, Efficiency, and Public Policy | |
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| Progressive Government: A Summary | |
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| References | |
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| The Making and Unmaking of Federal Urban Policy | |
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| An Urban Policy: What Should It Be? | |
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| The Organization of Government and Urban Policy | |
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| How the Federal Government Influences Urban Matters | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Federal Urban Policy | |
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| Conclusion: The Federal Government and the Paradox | |
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| References | |
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| Power and Leadership in the American City | |
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| What We Know About Power in American Cities | |
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| Examining Big City Power | |
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| Power in the American City: Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Power in the Twenty-First Century City: A Brief Look at Three Big City Mayors | |
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| References | |
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| Urban Riots and Public Policy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Riots and Rebellions: A Brief History of Urban Unrest | |
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| Analyzing Urban Riots | |
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| The Los Angeles Riots of 1992: Rebellion, Profit, or Bad Management? | |
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| Conclusions: What Do We Know About Urban Riots? | |
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| References | |
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| Changing America's Urban Areas | |
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| Can Citizens Control Urban Governance? | |
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| Social Capital: The Condition and the Problem | |
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| Approaches to Expanding Community Involvement | |
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| Methods of Expanding Public Participation | |
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| Summary: The Search for Social Capital | |
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| References | |
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| The Governance of Metropolitan Regions | |
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| The Rise of Suburbia and the Fragmented City | |
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| Government Fragmentation: Is It a Problem? | |
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| Approaches to an Improved Metropolitan Organization of Governments | |
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| The Practice of Modern Regional Governance | |
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| Conclusions: Preserving Our Rights and Protecting Our Regions | |
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| Resolving the Paradox of Urban Governance | |
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| How Did These Conditions Come About? | |
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| How Is the Paradox Resolved? | |
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| Bold Approaches to the Problems of American Cities | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| Photo Credits | |