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Urban Affairs White Paper Released

The Brookings Institute releases a new white paper series on urban sprawl, crime, taxes, education, poverty, and related subjects.
15 August 2000 - 7:30am
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The American City in A.D. 2025

What will our cities be in 25 years? The question calls up a caricature, a grotesque vision of ultimate ghettoization.
25 July 2000 - 6:30am
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America's Urban Agenda -- From California

California reflects the nation's changing demographic, economic, and political realities. California practically invented the "metroplex" concept.
24 July 2000 - 6:30am
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Why Cities Matter to Welfare Reform

A new report by the Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy tracks welfare caseloads in the 89 counties that contain the 100 largest U.S. cities.
23 July 2000 - 10:30am
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No Easy Answers

The Brookings Review publishes cautionary notes for competitive cities.
23 July 2000 - 6:30am
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The Paradox of Infrasructure Investment

The potential benefits of public capital investments are of two sorts -- market benefits and "quality of life" benefits.
22 July 2000 - 7:30am
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Dirt Into Dollars

The Brookings Review takes a new approach to converting vacant land into valuable development.
21 July 2000 - 6:30am
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Nothing Left to Lose

Only radical strategies can help America's most distressed cities.
20 July 2000 - 6:30am
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The Market Power of Cities?

Before the mid-20th century no one would have thought to ask such a question. The market power of cities was manifest.
19 July 2000 - 7:30am
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Toward a New Urban Agenda

The marginalization of urban policies is in part a response to the diminishing political influence of cities after decades of depopulation and suburban growth.
18 July 2000 - 8:30am
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Demand for Density?

Many social observers believe that the city is becoming obsolete, and that information technology has deprived urban density of its reason for existence.
17 July 2000 - 8:30am
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The New Urban Demographics

The familiar distinctions between central cities and suburbs are being complicated by new demographic trends which will have important effects on urban America.
16 July 2000 - 7:30am
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Cities and the Presidential Election

To create real change, and to help cities become strong and competitive, government officials need to think differently about urban policy.
6 July 2000 - 1:30pm
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