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Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation (Paperback, New edition)
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Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation (Paperback, New edition)
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Urban experts survey the crisis in our cities - in 13 essays and a
series of recommendations that emphasize the interwoven destinies
of city and suburb, city and nation. The text is drawn from a
symposium led by Cisneros (former San Antonio mayor and now
Clinton's secretary of housing and urban development), who offers
an introduction. The contributors generally agree that our cities
can't cope alone with the problems that have been concentrated
within their borders: poverty, distressed families, unemployment,
undereducation, racism, insufficient affordable housing, ghetto
health statistics at Third World levels, crime, drugs, an
overburdened justice system - and a consequent widespread breakdown
of civility and trust. There's general recognition that federal
policies since WW II have combined with other forces to drain the
cities of revenue and burden them with more than their fair share
of expenses - and that some adjustment, such as
metropolitan-area-wide tax collection and redistribution, is
necessary to redress the imbalance. The point is made repeatedly
that the fortunes of metropolitan areas rise and fall with the
fortunes of their central cities. Individual essays range from
conservative sermonizing and civic cheerleading to a blizzard of
census statistics and a community organizer's prescription for
creative and realistic neighborhood advocacy as taught by the
Industrial Area Foundation (founded 50 years ago by Saul Alinski).
Nearly all the essays are thoughtful and authoritative. The
recommendations - long on "should's" and short on "how's" - are on
the order of region-wide planning and taxing structures, with heavy
investment in "human capital" (schools and job training), public
transportation, and urban development. The value here isn't so much
for new ideas and directions or detailed blueprints as for the
informed overview and validation of the policy position: that both
justice and national survival require a leveling of the playing
field between ailing cities and parasitic suburbs. (Kirkus Reviews)
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