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In the past two decades powerful economic, social, and fiscal forces have buffeted America's major cities. The urbanization of poverty, the shift in employment from manufacturing to services, middle-class flight to the suburbs and Sunbelt, the tax revolt, and cuts in federal aid have made it difficult for many cities to pay for such basic services as police and fire protection, sanitation, and roads.
In America's Ailing Cities Helen F. Ladd and John Yinger identify and measure the impact of these broad national trends. Drawing on data from 86 major cities, they offer a rigorous and innovative analysis of urban fiscal conditions. Specifically, they determine the impact of a wide range of factors that lie outside municipal control, including a city's basic economic structure and state-determined fiscal institutions, on a city's underlying fiscal health—the difference between potential revenue and the expenditure needed to finance public services of acceptable quality. Concluding that the fiscal health of America's cities has worsened since 1972, the authors call for new state and federal urban policies that direct assistance to the neediest cities.
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Identifies and measures the impact of the powerful economic, social and fiscal forces that have buffeted America's major cities in the past two decades.
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Brian White
reviewed America's Ailing Cities: Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy on February 03, 2014
America's Ailing Cities
A basic yet well written introduction to ecologicial processes including descriptive overviews of the branches of life, and the different ecosystems on Earth. As the book was written pre 21st C, the sense of urgency is somewhat missing since the overarching impact of climate change on biodiversity and human ecology was not as apparent then. The latter portion dealing with threats to biodiversity and methods to achieve sustainability are less enjoyable suffering from a sense of datedness. Conversely, it can be lauded for being one of the early warnings of a global ecosystem stressed beyond carrying capacity, as only ecologists could see the big picture at the time.
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