Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Henry S. Reuss
  • Part I. Introduction : the changing cities- what is happening and why? New regional and metropolitan realities of America / George Sternlieb and James Hughes
  • The population factor and urban structure / William Alonso
  • Part II. Strategies for managing change. The changing life of cities / Roger Starr
  • Complexity and the case for large cities / Peter S. Albin
  • Land management strategies for central city depopulation / Wilbur Thompson
  • Strategies for city investment / S. Jerome Pratter
  • The other neighborhoods : building community institutions / Alan Kravitz
  • The aging central city : some modest proposals / Norman Krumholz
  • How cities can cope with shrinkage / Gurney Breckenfeld
  • Service costs in the declining city / Thomas Muller
  • Managing the city of the future / Mark Kasoff.
  • Part III. The federal role in helping cities adjust to change. Perspectives on a national urban policy / Roy Bahl
  • National urban policy : wish, program, impact / William Barnes and Leo Penne
  • Adding human potential to urban economic development / Jeffrey Parker
  • Economic development in Afro America / Richard America
  • Building from strength in mature cities / Graham Finney
  • How to help cities become independent / Norton Long.