Business Policy and Strategy

Rethinking Urban Policy: Urban Development in an Advanced Economy

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The Committee on National Urban Policy, established by the National Research Council (NRC) in 1981 with support from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Ford Foundation, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States, was charged with responsibility for evaluating past urban policies, continuing review of current policies, examining the experiences of other advanced nations with urban policy, and developing policy options and recommendations for the future. During the earliest stages of its deliberations, the committee decided that it could contribute most to the discussion of urban policy by addressing basic conditions or trends that seem likely to shape the future course of urban development and raise issues that public policy must face. Traditional approaches to urban policy that deal with a series of functional problems— housing, neighborhood and commercial district deterioration, transportation, urban poverty—have often failed to produce unified and lasting policies not because the problems are unimportant, but because they often tend to be derivative of more fundamental social and economic forces at work in cities and suburbs. It is also important to view urban areas as whole economic entities rather than solely in terms of political jurisdictions.

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: ., 1983

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1-232

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English

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0-309-03426-4

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