Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Gappert, Gary.
2. Rose, Harold M.

Description

1. 640 pages; 25 cm

Summary

1. Interdisciplinary research monograph on urban area affairs in the USA, with particular reference to interrelationships between urban sociology and economics aspects - covers government policy trends, urban planning, the socioeconomic analysis of housing markets, the dynamics of urban land utilization and urban population, poverty and social problems, etc., and includes perspectives on evaluation and research methods. References and statistical tables.

Series statement

1. Urban affairs annual reviews ; v. 9

Uniform title

1. Urban affairs annual reviews ; v. 9.

Subject

1. Cities and towns
2. Urban economics
3. Social policy
4. Cities
5. Public Policy
6. cities
7. public policy
8. Cities and towns
9. Social policy
10. Urban economics
11. Sozialpolitik
12. Stadt
13. Stadtwirtschaft
14. interdisciplinary research
15. urban area
16. urban sociology
17. economics
18. government policy
19. trend
20. urban planning
21. economic analysis
22. housing
23. market
24. land utilization
25. urban population
26. poverty
27. social problem
28. evaluation
29. research method
30. statistical table
31. Sociologia Urbana
32. Political planning
33. recherche interdisciplinaire
34. zone urbaine
35. sociologie urbaine
36. sciences économiques
37. politique gouvernementale
38. tendance
39. aménagement urbain
40. analyse économique
41. logement
42. marché
43. utilisation des terres
44. population urbaine
45. pauvreté
46. problème social
47. évaluation
48. méthode de recherche
49. tableau statistique
50. investigación interdisciplinaria
51. zona urbana
52. sociología urbana
53. ciencias económicas
54. política gubernamental
55. tendencia
56. planificación urbana
57. análisis económico
58. vivienda
59. mercado
60. utilización de la tierra
61. población urbana
62. pobreza
63. problema social
64. evaluación
65. método de investigación
66. cuadros estadísticos
67. USA
68. Etats-Unis
69. Estados Unidos

Genre/Form

1. reference.
2. référence bibliographique.
3. referencia.

Contents

1. Part I. The changing concerns of national urban policy -- The political economy of urban America : national urban policy revisited / Jesse Burkhead -- The large city as fiscal artifact / Seymour Sacks with Patrick J. Sullivan -- Part II. Urban housing markets and their interpretation -- The political economy of urbanization in advanced capitalist societies : the case of the United States / David Harvey -- Short-term housing cycles in a dualistic metropolis / Brian J.L. Berry -- Socioeconomic transition and housing values : a comparative analysis of urban neighborhoods / Hugh O. Nourse and Donald Phares -- Part III. Analyzing the dynamics of urban spatial changes -- Emerging patterns of industrial activity within large metropolitan areas and their impact on the central city work force / Charles M. Christian -- The street gang in its milieu / David Ley -- Locational and ecological aspects of urban public sector housing : the Israeli case / Amiram Gonen -- Part IV. Perspectives on urban stress and population changes -- Urban Black migration and social stress : the influence of regional differences in patterns of socialization / Harold M. Rose -- The periphery at the pole : Lima, Peru / Milton Santos -- Indicators of labor market functioning and urban social distress / Robert Mier, Thomas Vietorisz, and Jean-Ellen Giblin -- The distribution of coloured immigrants in Britain / Ceri Peach, Stuart Winchester, and Robert Woods -- Part V. Poverty and resources : analysis and mobilization -- Urban work in a changing economy / Scott Greer and Ann Lennarson Greer -- The social economy in urban working-class communities / Martin D. Lowenthal -- Rethinking urban problems : inequality and the grants economy / John P. Blair, Gary Gappert, and David C. Warner -- Recent trends in corporate urban development programs / Jules Cohn -- Part VI. Three perspectives on evaluation -- Social indicators and society : some key dimensions / Michael J. Flax, Michael Springer, and Jeremy B. Taylor -- Program evaluation and policy analysis of community development corporations / Harvey A. Garn -- An evaluation of evaluation research : when professional dreams meet local needs / Michael Barndt -- Alternative agendas for urban policy and research in the post affluent future / Gary Gappert.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographies.