Independent Cities: Rethinking U.S. Urban Policy

by Robert J. Waste

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Every fifteen minutes a child in an American city suffers a gunshot wound. Thirty million urban Americans go to bed hungry each night. Twenty percent of the bridges in metro areas are functionally obsolete, and voter turnout nationally and in metro areas has declined almost 25 percent from the 1960s to the 1990s. Since at least 1990, American cities have been forced to deal with overwhelming problems -- high levels of poverty, hunger, homelessness,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195108302

ISBN13:9780195108309

Release Date:January 1998

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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20th Century City Planning & Urban Development Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Public Affairs & Administration Public Affairs & Policy Regional Planning Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics Urban Urban Planning & Development

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