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| List of Boxes | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Framing the Issue | |
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| Lessons from Urban America | |
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| The Real City Is the Total Metropolitan Area-City and Suburb | |
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| Most of America's Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians Live in Metro Areas | |
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| Since World War H, Most Urban Growth Has Been Low Density, Suburban Style | |
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| For a City's Population to Grow, the City Must Be Elastic | |
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| Almost All Metro Areas Have Grown | |
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| Low-Density Cities Can Grow through Infill; High-Density Cities Cannot | |
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| Elastic Cities Expand Their City Limits; Inelastic Cities Do Not | |
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| Bad State Laws Can Hobble Cities | |
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| Neighbors Can Trap Cities | |
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| Old Cities Are Complacent; Young Cities Are Ambitious | |
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| Racial Prejudice Has Shaped Growth Patterns | |
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| Elastic Cities "Capture" Suburban Population Growth; Inelastic Cities "Contribute" to Suburban Population Growth | |
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| Elastic Cities Gain Population; Inelastic Cities Lose Population | |
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| Shrinking Household Size Understates Elastic Cities' Gains While Overstating Inelastic Cities' Losses | |
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| Inelastic Areas Are More Segregated Than Elastic Areas | |
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| Major Immigration Increases Hispanic Segregation | |
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| Highly Racially Segregated Regions Are Also Highly Economically Segregated Regions | |
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| Inelastic Cities Have Wide Income Gaps with Their Suburbs; Elastic Cities Maintain Greater City-Suburb Balance | |
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| Poverty Is More Disproportionately Concentrated in Inelastic Cities Than in Elastic Cities | |
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| Little Boxes Regions Foster Segregation; Big Box Regions Facilitate Integration | |
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| Little Boxes School Districts Foster Segregation; Big Box School Districts Facilitate Integration | |
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| Inelastic Areas Were Harder Hit by Deindustrialization of the American Labor Market | |
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| Elastic Areas Had Faster Rates of Nonfactory Job Creation Than Did Inelastic Areas | |
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| Elastic Areas Showed Greater Real Income Gains Than Inelastic Areas | |
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| Elastic Cities Have Better Bond Ratings Than Inelastic Cities | |
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| Elastic Areas Have a Higher-Educated Workforce Than Inelastic Areas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Characteristics of Metropolitan Areas | |
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| The Point of (Almost) No Return | |
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| Cities without Suburbs | |
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| Strategies for Sketching Cities | |
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| Three Essential Regional Policies | |
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| Metro Government: A Definition | |
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| State Government's Crucial Role | |
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| Federal Government: Leveling the Playing Field | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Successful City-County Consolidations | |
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| Potential City-County Consolidations | |
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| Sources | |
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| Index | |
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| Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | |