How cities can grow old gracefully / [prepared for the] Subcommittee on the City of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, 95th Congress, first session.

Other author United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on the City.
Format Book
Publication InfoWashington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1977.
Descriptionxiv, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Foreword / Henry S. Reuss -- Part I. Introduction : the changing cities- what is happening and why? New regional and metropolitan realities of America / George Sternlieb and James Hughes -- The population factor and urban structure / William Alonso -- Part II. Strategies for managing change. The changing life of cities / Roger Starr -- Complexity and the case for large cities / Peter S. Albin -- Land management strategies for central city depopulation / Wilbur Thompson -- Strategies for city investment / S. Jerome Pratter -- The other neighborhoods : building community institutions / Alan Kravitz -- The aging central city : some modest proposals / Norman Krumholz -- How cities can cope with shrinkage / Gurney Breckenfeld -- Service costs in the declining city / Thomas Muller -- Managing the city of the future / Mark Kasoff --
Contents Part III. The federal role in helping cities adjust to change. Perspectives on a national urban policy / Roy Bahl -- National urban policy : wish, program, impact / William Barnes and Leo Penne -- Adding human potential to urban economic development / Jeffrey Parker -- Economic development in Afro America / Richard America -- Building from strength in mature cities / Graham Finney -- How to help cities become independent / Norton Long.
General noteAt head of title: Committee print.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 78602443
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