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Acknowledgments

Foreword

Chapter 1: Urban America and Urban Western Europe: Are They Different?
Anita A. Summers

PART I. INTRA- AND INTERMETROPOLITAN AREA CHANGE: EVIDENCE AND STRATEGIES

Chapter 2: Contrasting Strategies for the Economic Development of Metropolitan Areas in the United States and Western Europe
Anthony Downs

Chapter 3: Priorities in Urban and Economic Development
Peter Hall

Chapter 4: Patterns and Processes of Employment and Population Decentralization in the United States, 1970-87
Peter D. Linneman and Anita A. Summers

Chapter 5: Some Causes of Western European Patterns of Urban Change
Paul C. Cheshire

PART II. THE DYNAMICS OF METROPOLITAN AREA CHANGE: THEORY AND EVIDENCE

Chapter 6: What Makes Metropolitan Areas Grow?
Edwin S. Mills

Chapter 7: The Metropolitan Area in Its Wider Setting
John B. Parr

Chapter 8: Networking Strategies as a Factor in Urban Decentralization
Lanfranco Senn and Gianluigi Gorla

Chapter 9: Regional Changes in Urban and Metropolitan Population in the United States
Charles L. Leven

Chapter 10: Urban Decentralization Processes in Western Europe
Rainer Mackensen

PART III. IMPLICATIONS OF METROPOLITAN CHANGE

Chapter 11: Fiscal Consequences for U.S. Central Cities of the Changing Urban Form
Helen F. Ladd

Chapter 12: The Structure of Local Public Finance and the Quality of Life in the United States
Joseph Gyourko and Joseph Tracy

Chapter 13: Over the Horizon: Jobs in the Suburbs of Major Metropolitan Areas
Mark Alan Hughes and Anaïs Loizillon

PART IV. ROLE OF GOVERNMENT

Chapter 14: National Assistance to Urban Areas in the United States
Dick Netzon

Chapter 15: Technology Development Programs, Intergovernmental Relations, and Balanced Regional Growth
Michael I. Luger

Chapter 16: Decentralization and Residential Choices in European Cities: The Roles of State and Market
Duncan Maclennan

Chapter 17: The Urban Life Cycle and the Role of a Market-Oriented Revitalization Policy in Western Europe
Leo van den Berg

PART V. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

Chapter 18: Decentralization in the United States and the United Kingdom: Commonalities in the Evidence
John M. Quigley

Chapter 19: A Postscript: Exurbia or Islington?
Paul C. Cheshire

Index

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Urban Change in the United States and Western Europe: Comparative Analysis and Policy, edited by Anita A. Summers, Paul C. Cheshire and Lanfranco Senn, is available from the Urban Institute Press (paper, ISBN 0-87766-683-0, $39.50). To obtain a copy call (202) 261-5687 or 800.537.5487.

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