America's Ailing Cities: Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy

by John Yinger and Helen F. Ladd

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801842441
• ISBN13: 9780801842443
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"