A Bibliography Of Municipal Problems And City Conditions Primary Source Edition PDF Download

Excerpt from Crisis of the Cities The Factors Of Decline; Roots of Reform, 1. The Purpose of This Study, 5; Impending Bankruptcy; The Matrix of Municipal Insolvency, 7. Reaction Against Indebtedness, 10. The Pattern of Parsimony, 12. The Expensive Twenties, 14. Financial Collapse in the Thirties, 16. Recovery and Stocktaking in the Forties, 18. Search for New Sources of Income and Financing, 20. Impending Bankruptcy, 25; Civic Virtue And Civic Failure; Political Format of the American Municipality, 92. The Reform Movement, 32. Reform Issues of the Interim, 36. Civic Virtue in the Twenties, 40. Crisis of the Thirties, 41. The Forties: Recovery and Old Form Politics, 43. Government by Default, 44; Urban Deterioration And Exodus; The Pattern of Spoliation and Flight, 48. Burned Out Cities: Housing, 50. Deterioration of the Urban Environment, 52. Economic Decay as a Factor in Urban Decline, 57. The Concept of Urban Redevelopment, 58. Suburbs - Flight from the City, 61; City Planning: Urban Renewal Or Dead End?; Genesis of American City Planning, 66. The City Beautiful Concept in City Planning, 70. City Planning as Social Control, 75. The "Long-Haired Planners" of the Forties, 78. The Fifties - the Planning Cul-de-sac, 84; New York: Metropolis In The Toils; Urbanism in Extremis, 88. New York's Checkered History, 89. From Consolidation Through the Thirties, 92. The Decade of Problems - the 1940s, 95. Into the Fifties, 97. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.