Title & Author:

Post-industrial America : metropolitan decline & inter-regional job shifts / edited by George Sternlieb and James W. Hughes.

Publication:

New Brunswick : Centre for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, 1975.

Description:

267 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Section I : The trendlines and patterns of change -- The national setting : regional shifts, metropolitan decline, and urban decay / Vincent P. Barbara -- Recent economic trends in the major Northeastern metropolises / Michael R. Greenberg and Nicholas J. Valente -- Is the New York region the prototype? / George Sternlieb and James W. Hughes -- Changing growth patterns : the case of New York State / John E. Smith and Michael J. Batutis, Jr. -- Section II : Underlying processes and problems -- The decline of the aging metropolis : cultural bases and social process / Brian J.L. Berry -- Economic processes and employment problems in declining metoropolitan ares / Wilbur Thompson -- The declining and growing metropolis-a fiscal comparison / Thomas Muller -- Implications of declining metropolitan population on housing markets / John F. Kain -- Section III : Planning and policy dimensions -- Social and political ramifications of metropolitan decline / Nathan Glazer -- The dilemmas of governmental responses / Roger Starr -- Epilogue -- Effluents and successes in declining metropolitan areas / Roger Starr -- The trendline validity / The Census Bureau representatives -- Discontinuities and long-term processes / John F. Kain -- The resynthesis of growth / Wilbur Thompson -- Growth cycles and the costs of growth / Thomas Muller -- Interventions in long-term processes / Brian J.L. Berry.

Summary:

"Metropolitan and regional economic and demographic shifts - now manifested in the stagnation or decline of America's old industrial region - pose consequences more far-reaching than the urban-suburban shifts which have heretofore claimed public attention. This collection of original essays examines why the focus of development is shifting away from older metropolitan regions and begins to mold policy in regard to a number of vexing issues: jobs and earnings, labor force characteristics, housing supplies, public expenditures, land use, tax delinquency and abandonment, and the struggle for racial equality. George Sternlieb and James W. Hugues have focused on three approaches to metropolitan change: examining the economic and demographic trendlines, analyzing the causes underlying the statistics, and considering the policy implications of stagnation or decline in our older cities."--Jacket

Resources:
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ISBN:

088285027X
9780882850276

Subject:

Metropolitan areas United States.
Industries United States.
Migration, Internal United States.
Agglomérations urbaines États-Unis.
Migration intérieure États-Unis.
Industries.
Metropolitan areas.
Migration, Internal.
Social conditions.
Internal migration United States.
United States Social conditions 1960-1980.
États-Unis Industrie.
États-Unis Conditions sociales 1960-
États-Unis Conditions sociales 1960-1980.
United States.

Added entries:

Sternlieb, George.
Hughes, James W.
Rutgers University. Centre for Urban Policy Research.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269791
Call No.: BIB 202202
Status: Available