Inside game/outside game : winning strategies for saving urban America / David Rusk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rusk, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban policy--United States.

Urban policy.

Urban poor--Housing.

Urban poor.

United States.

Metropolitan areas--United States.

Metropolitan areas.

Metropolitan government--United States.

Metropolitan government.

Land use--United States--Planning.

Land use.

Planning.

Urban poor--Housing--United States.

Revenue sharing--United States.

Revenue sharing.

Physical Description:

xv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Inside game, outside game

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [1999]

Summary:

For the past three decades, the federal government has targeted the poorest areas of American cities with a succession of antipoverty initiatives, yet these urban neighborhoods continue to decline. According to David Rusk, focusing on improving inner-city neighborhoods by playing only the "inside game" is a losing strategy. Achieving real improvement requires matching the "inside game" with a strong "outside game" of regional strategies to overcome growing fiscal disparities, concentrated poverty, and urban sprawl.

In this persuasive book filled with personal observations as well as his trademark mastery of census statistics, Rusk argues that state legislatures must set new "rules of the game." They must require regional revenue or tax base sharing to reduce fiscal disparity, regional housing policies to ensure that all new developments have their fair share of low- and moderate-income housing to dissolve concentrations of poverty, and regional land-use planning and growth management to control urban sprawl. State government action, Rusk argues, is particularly crucial where regions are highly fragmented by many competing city, village, and township governments. He provides vivid success stories that demonstrate best practices for these regional strategies along with recommendations for building effective regional coalitions.

Contents:

Bedford-Stuyvesant : beginnings

Walnut Hills, Jamaica Plain, and other neighborhoods

Pilot Small's Airport and RKO Keith's Balcony : sprawl and race

The sprawl machine

The poverty machine

The deficit machine

Portland, Oregon : taming urban sprawl

Montgomery County, Maryland : mixing up the neighborhood

Dayton Ohio's ED/GE : the rewards (and limits) of voluntary agreements

Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota : the winning coalition

Changing federal public housing policies

Building regional coalitions

Changing attitudes, changing laws.

Notes:

"A Century Foundation Book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-367) and index.

ISBN:

0815776500

OCLC:

39379655