Saving our cities : a progressive plan to transform urban America /
In 'Saving Our Cities', William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather then places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more pro...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : looking upstream
- Cities as political targets
- Cities as budget-cutting targets
- Troubled city schools : social class, race, and place
- Options for city schools
- The paradox of plenty
- Drugs, prisons, and neighborhoods
- Drug war politics
- Conclusion : democracy, inequality, urban policy.