The Twenty-First Century City: Resurrecting Urban America

by Stephen Goldsmith

Book Overview

A hopeful glimpse of the city of the future-a city where less bureaucratic intervention means lower costs, safer streets, and better services. Mayor Goldsmith has proved that by using this new philosophy of urban governance-of government acting as a business and perceiving its citizens as customers-America's cities can once again buzz with the sounds of success.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847692515
• ISBN13: 9780847692514
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

WORTHWHILE READ BY INDIANAPOLIS MAYOR AND BUSH ADVISOR

I PICKED UP AND READ THIS BOOK, WRITTEN BY POPULAR AND SUCCESSFUL INDIANAPOLIS MAYOR STEPHEN GOLDSMITH, TO GAIN A DEEPER, BETTER IDEA OF THE POSSIBLE APPROACH AND STYLE OF A GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENCY'S DOMESTIC POLICIES. MAYOR GOLDSMITH, NOW THE CIVIC AND DOMESTIC POLICY ADVISOR TO THE TEXAS GOVERNOR'S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, HAS PRODUCED AN INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE LOOK AT HIS TIME IN OFFICE, BOTH THE MANY SUCCESSES AND THE OCCASIONAL SETBACKS EXPERIENCED, AND THE LESSONS LEARNED FROM BOTH. THIS BOOK IS WRITTEN WITH GREAT CANDOR AND IS A MUST-READ FOR ANYONE SEEKING MORE INFORMATION WITH WHICH TO MAKE THEIR DECISION IN THE UPCOMING 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.