Urban Affairs Review articles from November 1998

Urban Affairs Review archives from November 1998

Is urban sprawl back on the political agenda? Local growth control, regional growth management, and politics.
November 1, 1998... Growth control is in bad odor in the urban studies literature. It is associated with NIMBYism, exclusion of lower-income people from suburbs, and the desire to enjoy the benefits of urban life without having to help pay for them. It has been...

Economic restructuring of cities, suburbs, adn nonmetropolitan areas, 1977-1992.
November 1, 1998... The impact of deindustrialization and economic restructuring on American cities over the past two decades has been a major concern for city officials. As businesses closed and city residents left for other jobs, municipal tax bases suffered....

Beyond the region: the rise and fall of economic regionalism in Downriver Detroit.
November 1, 1998... Have the same forces that wrecked havoc on old industrial centers created opportunities for remaking them into regional industrial systems? Theorists who think this is the case argue that institution building at the regional level may support...

Job decentralization and central-city well-being an empirical study with sectoral data.
November 1, 1998... The U.S. metropolitan areas have experienced a massive decentralization of jobs in recent decades, leading to a concern about its possible adverse impact on central-city residents. The inability of certain sections of centralcity households to...

Changes in central-city representation and influence in Congress since the 1960s.
November 1, 1998... It is widely believed that central-city representation and influence in Congress have diminished since the 1960s, largely as a result of the decline in central-city population and the growth of the suburbs. This belief often is accompanied by...

Globalization and the revalorizing of ethnic places in immigration gateway cities.
November 1, 1998... The phenomenon of globalization in American cities is a complex set of transformations that suggest contrasting scenarios of promise and peril. These contradictions are manifest considering the vicissitudes of boom and bust buffeting U.S....

Busing, "White flight," and the role of developers in the continuous suburbanization of Franklin County, Ohio.
November 1, 1998... In the United States, the introduction in the 1960s and 1970s of busing for racial balance as a remedy for segregation in urban school districts triggered a substantial movement to the suburbs known as "white flight" (Frey 1979; Orfield and...

Local Economic Development Policy: The United States and Canada.
November 1, 1998... Laura A. Reese, Local Economic Development Policy: The United States and Canada (New York: Garland, 1997), 161 pp., $37.00 (cloth). Laura A. Reese's work, Local Economic Development Policy: The United States and Canada goes a long way...

Post-Suburbia: Government and Politics in the Edge Cities.
November 1, 1998... John C. Teaford, Post-Suburbia: Government and Politics in the Edge Cities (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), 249 pp., $32.50 (cloth). Forms of government, like all other social institutions, are products of competing...

The Japanese City.
November 1, 1998... P. P. Karan and Kristin Stapleton, eds., The Japanese City (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997), 250 pp. (cloth). How much can we learn about the Japanese city from an edited book such as this? The answer to this question...