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The millennial city : a new urban paradigm for 21st-century America / edited with an introduction by Myron Magnet.
LIBRA HT123 .M535 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--United States.
- Cities and towns.
- Sociology, Urban--United States.
- Sociology, Urban.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 440 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2000.
- Summary:
- Drawn from the pages of City Journal, the quarterly magazine that has established a reputation for pathbreaking analytical reports on the urban scene, The Millenial City explores new approaches to crime and its prevention; the reform of welfare; the reinvention of government; and new school initiatives. The book also takes on issues of economy, housing, homelessness, immigrants, quality of life, and the physical environment. ""City Journal is the great Fool Killer in the arena of urban policy. It's more than sharp and penetrating. It's a joy to read."" --Tom Wolfe
- Contents:
- I. Cities
- Fate of a World City / Nathan Glazer 10
- Why Did Ed Rendell Fizzle Out? / Fred Siegel, Kay S. Hymowitz 20
- Willie Brown Shows How Not to Run a City / Brian C. Anderson, Matt Robinson 34
- Jerry Brown's No-Nonsense New Age for Oakland / Heather Mac Donald 47
- Why LA Is Bouncing Back / Joel Kotkin 59
- II. Crime
- What We've Learned About Policing / William J. Bratton, William Andrews 70
- Why Teen Thugs Get Away with Murder / Peter Reinharz 81
- How New York Is Winning the Drug War / Patrick J. Harnett, William Andrews 90
- Why the Jails Didn't Explode / Paul E. O'Connell, Frank Straub 100
- III. Education
- How Teachers' Unions Handcuff Schools / Sol Stern 110
- Why Johnny's Teacher Can't Teach / Heather Mac Donald 125
- The Invisible Miracle of Catholic Schools / Sol Stern 141
- The School Reform That Dares Not Speak Its Name / Sol Stern 156
- The Schools That Vouchers Built / Sol Stern 167
- Yes, Vouchers Are Constitutional / Richard E. Morgan 180
- IV. Welfare
- Compassion Gone Mad / Heather Mac Donald 192
- Welfare Reform Discoveries / Heather Mac Donald 206
- The Real Welfare Problem Is Illegitimacy / Heather Mac Donald 222
- The Teen Mommy Track / Kay S. Hymowitz 236
- In Foster Care, Children Come Last / Rita Kramer 247
- Putting Children First: A New Direction for Welfare Reform / Myron Magnet 256
- V. Homelessness
- Let's Stop Being Nutty About the Mentally Ill / E. Fuller Torrey 266
- Homeless Advocates in Outer Space / Heather Mac Donald 274
- VI. The Economy
- The Unexpected Lessons of Times Square's Comeback / William J. Stern 284
- New York's Million Missing Jobs / Steven G. Craig, D. Andrew Austin 294
- Let's Break Up the Big Cities / Howard Husock 303
- VII. The Physical City
- Why Lampposts and Phone Booths Matter / Roger Scruton 320
- Urban Lessons from Paris / David Garrard Lowe 327
- We Don't Need Subsidized Housing / Howard Husock 336
- When Cleanliness Isn't a Virtue / Kenneth Silber 346
- VIII. Immigrants
- Bombay on the Hudson / Jonathan Foreman 356
- Why Koreans Succeed / Heather Mac Donald 371
- IX. Quality of Life
- BIDs Really Work / Heather Mac Donald 388
- Quiet, Please / Julia Vitullo-Martin 404
- Toward a More Civil City / Jonathan Foreman 413.
- Notes:
- Selection of articles from City journal magazine.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1566632854
- OCLC:
- 42968136
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