Papers prepared for a meeting of the National Urban Policy Roundtable. Includes index.
Contents:
Part V. Conclusions -- Local options for meeting the fiscal needs of cities / William Oakland. Jobs for the urban unemployed / Roger J. Vaughan -- Improving the employability of the unemployed / Bernard E. Anderson -- Improving the measurement of city unemployment / Harold Goldstein -- Part II. Revitalization : people and property -- The future of the return-to-the-city movement / George Sternlieb and Kristina Ford -- Race and poverty : keys to central city revitalization / John F. Kain -- Reinvestment in the city : problems of public-private cooperation / James L. Hetland, Jr. -- Part III. Financing and distributing public services : education and police services -- Financing education and police services / Thomas Muller -- Equity in the distribution of municipal services / Astrid E. Merget -- Blacks and the police : ten years after the Riot Commission report / Elinor Ostrom -- Part IV. The creation of order in inner-city schools -- Violence and vandalism in central-city schools / Bernard C. Watson -- Declining school enrollment / John J. Hudder and Robert J. Dinkelmeyer -- Neighborhood control of schools / Joseph F. Zimmerman -- Part V. Conclusions -- The taxpayers' revolt : an opportunity to make positive changes in local government / Selma J. Mushkin ... [et al.] -- Local options for meeting the fiscal needs of cities / William Oakland.
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