Urban change in the United States and Western Europe : comparative analysis and policy /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Summers, Anita A., Cheshire, P. C., Senn, Lanfranco
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press ; [1993]
Subjects:	Cities and towns > United States > Growth > Congresses. Cities and towns > Europe > Growth > Congresses. Urban policy > United States > Congresses. Urban policy > Europe > Congresses. Community development, Urban > United States > Congresses. Community development, Urban > Europe > Congresses.

Table of Contents:

Urban America and urban Western Europe : are they different? / Anita A. Summers
Contrasting strategies for the economic development of metropolitan areas in the United States and Western Europe / Anthony Downs
Priorities in urban and economic development / Peter Hall
Patterns and processes of employment and population decentralization in the United States, 1970-87 / Peter D. Linneman and Anita A. Summers
Some causes of Western European patterns of urban change, 1971-88 / Paul C. Cheshire
What makes metropolitan areas grow? / Edwin S. Mills
The metropolitan area in its wider setting / John B. Parr
Networking strategies as a factor in urban decentralization / Lanfranco Senn and Gianluigi Gorla
Regional changes in urban and metropolitan population in the United States / Charles L. Leven
Urban decentralization processes in Western Europe / Rainer Mackensen.
Fiscal consequences for U.S. central cities of the changing urban form / Helen F. Ladd
The structure of local public finance and the quality of life in the United States / Joseph Gyourko and Joseph Tracy
Emerging settlement patterns and their implications for inner-city poverty in the United States / Mark Alan Hughes
Some implications of expenditure planning, grant systems, and governmental structures for cities in the United Kingdom / David Heald
Nation assistance to urban areas in the United States / Dick Netzer
Technology development programs, intergovernmental relations, and balanced regional growth / Michael I. Luger
Decentralization and residential choices in European cities : the roles of state and market / Duncan Maclennan
The urban life cycle and the role of market-oriented revitalization policy in Western Europe / Leo van den Berg.
Decentralization in the United States and the United Kingdom : commonalities in the evidence presented by Linneman, Summers, and Maclennan / John M. Quigley
Urban analysis across the Atlantic divide / Leo H. Klaassen and Paul C. Cheshire.