Cities Without Suburbs

by David Rusk

Book Overview

Argues that America must end the isolation of the central city from its suburbs in order to attack its urban problems. Rusk suggests that a key reform is creation of metropolitan area-wide governments or adoption by state governments of metro-wide requirements for local government.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0943875501
• ISBN13: 9780943875507
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Must-read for city policy-makers and social activists

David Rusk, former mayor of Albuquerque, NM, puts his experience and research to work in this compelling report. In it, he connects the economic and practical success of America's urban centers with the degree of socioeconomic and racial segregation present in each. The result is a blueprint that local, state and federal officials can use to reverse the troubling trends in our cities. Specifically, he calls for metro-wide planning councils, city-county consolidation, aggressive annexation by older central cities, and changes to state and federal laws to create unified cities without suburbs. The text also includes numerous interesting case studies that demonstrate what, when practiced, his ideas are capable of. Easy-to-read, fascinating, and enlightening. David Rusk is talking. Are America's city officials listening?