Tense Commandments Federal Prescriptions and City Problems,9780815760948

Tense Commandments Federal Prescriptions and City Problems

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ISBN13: 9780815760948
ISBN10: 0815760949
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-08-21
Publisher(s): Brookings Institution Press
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Summary

Despite widespread urban revitalization and renewal, Americans still prefer the suburbs to the cities. While many of the underlying causes of the urban predicament are familiar, there is also the less recognized possibility that regulatory policies of the federal government disadvantage the cities and ultimately burden their ability to attract residents and businesses. This book encourages renewed reflection on the suitable balance between national and local domains.

Author Biography

Pietro S. Nivola is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1(14)
``Shift and Shaft''
3(5)
Exemplifying the Problem
8(2)
Plan of the Book
10(1)
Some Preliminaries
11(4)
Problems
15(34)
The Trouble with Localism
16(1)
Mandating without Spending
17(4)
The Yellow Line
21(5)
One Size Does Not Fit All
26(3)
Zero Tolerance
29(4)
Adversarial Legalism
33(6)
Curing or Abetting the Mischiefs of Faction?
39(10)
Summary
Tales from Six Cities
49(44)
Baltimore
50(6)
Philadelphia
56(8)
New York
64(7)
Chicago
71(5)
San Francisco
76(7)
Los Angeles
83(5)
Conclusions
88(5)
The Politics of Paternalism
93(27)
The Thirties and Sixties
93(2)
Quantum Leap
95(3)
The Rise of Environmentalism
98(3)
The Age of ``Low Politics''
101(7)
The Courts in Charge
108(8)
Mandates without Money
116(1)
Summary
117(3)
Comparative Politics
120(17)
Fiscal Arrangements
121(5)
Legalism
126(3)
Other Elements of American Exceptionalism
129(4)
Decentralization
133(2)
Conclusions
135(2)
Conclusions
137(24)
The March of Mandates
138(5)
Too Much of a Good Thing
143(2)
Nostrums
145(5)
Making Progress
150(5)
Retrenchment
155(6)
Notes 161(48)
Index 209

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