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Publications by George E. Peterson on Cities and Metropolitan Regions

This report provides a background for the financing of local infrastructure investment in Romania. It summarizes the U.S. Agency for International Development's strategic context, discusses municipal creditworthiness and decentralized creditworthiness, and provides specific findings related to developing a municipal credit facility for Romania.

Recent elections have brought into power new groups that have redrawn ethnic and class lines and employed different strategies to adjust political machines to the new realities. This book considers the business of governing under the conflicting pressures of community organizations, the press, the business community, and higher levels of government and examines the fiscal and budgetary constraints upon big-city governments.

Is there an urban underclass that is becoming increasingly isolated from mainstream social and economic life? If so, how does it perpetuate itself and how does it limit the opportunities of people raised in poor neighborhoods? The authors examine these questions from several perspectives. They contrast the life of poor African Americans in 19th-century Philadelphia with the underclass of today, examine recent trends in the physical and economic isolation of the big-city poor, chronicle the ties that prevent individuals from escaping, analyze the alternative cultures of crime and drugs, and consider the friendship and institutional networks of the inner-city poor in Chicago.

Is there an urban underclass that is becoming increasingly isolated from mainstream social and economic life? If so, how does it perpetuate itself and how does it limit the opportunities of people raised in poor neighborhoods? The authors examine these questions from several perspectives. They contrast the life of poor African Americans in 19th-century Philadelphia with the underclass of today, examine recent trends in the physical and economic isolation of the big-city poor, chronicle the ties that prevent individuals from escaping, analyze the alternative cultures of crime and drugs, and consider the friendship and institutional networks of the inner-city poor in Chicago.

This book draws on surveys, interviews, and empirical analyses to show what happened in the nation's cities when federal policy changed during the Reagan administration. It includes discussions of the role of state governments in urban economic development and how the New Federalism can benefit cities.

This book draws on surveys, interviews, and empirical analyses to show what happened in the nation's cities when federal policy changed during the Reagan administration. It includes discussions of the role of state governments in urban economic development and how the New Federalism can benefit cities.