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019 _a(OCoLC)979882443
020 _a9781501706035
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024 7 _a10.7591/9781501706035
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501706035
035 _a(DE-B1597)478718
035 _a(OCoLC)959554735
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aHT167
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072 7 _aSOC026030
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082 0 4 _a307.760973
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aGoldsmith, William W.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aSaving Our Cities :
_bA Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America /
_cWilliam W. Goldsmith.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c©2016
300 _a1 online resource (304 p.) :
_b11 charts, 1 table
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tLooking Upstream --
_t1. Cities as Political Targets --
_t2. Cities as Budget-Cutting Targets --
_t3. Troubled City Schools --
_t4. Options for City Schools --
_t5. The Paradox of Plenty --
_t6. Drugs, Prisons, and Neighborhoods --
_t7. Drug-War Politics --
_tDemocracy, Inequality, Urban Policy --
_tNotes --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more productive, the environment better protected, the citizenry better educated, and the society more reflective, sensitive, and humane. Goldsmith argues that America has been in the habit of abusing its cities and their poorest suburbs, which are always the first to be blamed for society’s ills and the last to be helped. As federal and state budgets, regulations, and programs line up with the interests of giant corporations and privileged citizens, they impose austerity on cities, shortchange public schools, make it hard to get nutritious food, and inflict the drug war on unlucky neighborhoods. Frustration with inequality is spreading. Parents and teachers call persistently for improvements in public schooling, and education experiments abound. Nutrition indicators have begun to improve, as rising health costs and epidemic obesity have led to widespread attention to food. The futility of the drug war and the high costs of unwarranted, unprecedented prison growth have become clear. Goldsmith documents a positive development: progressive politicians in many cities and some states are proposing far-reaching improvements, supported by advocacy groups that form powerful voting blocs, ensuring that Congress takes notice. When more cities forcefully demand enlightened federal and state action on these four interrelated problems—inequality, schools, food, and the drug war—positive movement will occur in traditional urban planning as well, so as to meet the needs of most residents for improved housing, better transportation, and enhanced public spaces.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aCity planning
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aSociology, Urban
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aUrban policy
_zUnited States.
650 4 _aSociology & Social Science.
650 4 _aUrban Studies.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501706035
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501706035
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