City Life-Cycles and American Urban Policy

ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Cities in Evolution Cities, Innovation, and Economic Development The Social and Political Uses of Older Cities Do We Want a Permanent Urban Underclass? Appendix: Postindustrialism—False Promises? 2. Measuring Urban Legacies Defining City Age The Regional Dimension Jobs to people for People to Jobs? Appendix: The Potential Bias in the City Age Classification 3. Why City growth Rates Differ Accounting for Contrasts in City Population Growth The Demographic Transformation of the Old City Life-Cycle Tendencies in the 1970s Appendix : Cleveland's Historical Life-Cycle 4. City Borders and the Timing of Urban Development The Role of State Policy Guidelines Housing Endowments and City-Suburban Income Disparities The Territorial Histories of Young and Old Cities The Rules o f the Game The Social Uses of the Industrial Cities Territorial Legacies and City Economic Positions 5. Cities within the Industrial System The Determinations of Central-City Job Changes: 1948-1972 Manufacturing and Metropolitan Job Growth The Fall of the Heartland 6. The Product Cycle and the Rejuvenation Question Cores, Cycles, and the Decentralization of Production The Core and the Periphery in Retrospect The Product Cycle and the Seedbed Function T h e Dispersion of the Seedbed Function 7. Urban Political Legacies and City Expenditure Contrasts City-Sub Conflict and Local Fiscal Organization Sociospatial Systems (Revisited) The Structure of Expenditure Variations in Fiscal 1970 Local Fiscal Institutions as the "Determinants" of City Expenditures The Revenue Constraint and the 1976 Rankings The Logic of Federal Fiscal Relief to Declining Cities 8. Urban Differences and Federal Grant Formulas Measuring Central-City Differences The 1977 Community Development Block Grants Formula as an Index of City Age The 1980 Allocations under the New Formula 9. The Case for Dispersal Name IndexSubject Index