Urban Public Policy
Historical Modes and Methods
Edited by Martin A. Melosi
“The essays in Urban Public Policy cover a diverse range of historical issues in some depth, augmented by a rich set of sources and annotations and an excellent bibliographic essay by Melosi.”
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“The essays in Urban Public Policy cover a diverse range of historical issues in some depth, augmented by a rich set of sources and annotations and an excellent bibliographic essay by Melosi.”
Martin A. Melosi is Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Public Policy at the University of Houston.
Contents
Editor's Preface
Martin V. Melosi/Introduction
1. Carl Abbott/Five Downtown Strategies: Policy Discourse and Downtown Planning Since 1945
2. Paul George Lewis/Housing and American Privatism: The Origins and Evolution of Subsidized Home-Ownership Policy
3. Noel A. Cazenave/Chicago Influences on the War on Poverty
4. Sy Adler/The Evolution of Federal Transit Policy
5. Martin V. Melosi/Down in the Dumps: Is There a Garbage Crisis in America?
6. Harold L. Platt/World War I and the Birth of American Regionalism
7. Alan Mayne/City as Artifact: Heritage Preservation in Comparative Perspective
8. Seymore J. Mandelbaum/Reading Old Plans
Martin V. Melosi/Bibliographical Essay
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