Saving Our Cities : : A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America / / William W. Goldsmith.

In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than 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 productive, the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 11 charts, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Looking Upstream
  • 1. Cities as Political Targets
  • 2. Cities as Budget-Cutting Targets
  • 3. Troubled City Schools
  • 4. Options for City Schools
  • 5. The Paradox of Plenty
  • 6. Drugs, Prisons, and Neighborhoods
  • 7. Drug-War Politics
  • Democracy, Inequality, Urban Policy
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index