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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 1428966498
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Part One of this report focuses on social and economic trends affecting the United State's cities and on the potential for a city-suburb alliance to promote a common agenda -- one that addresses the challenges, and seizes the opportunities, reflected in the trends. Part Two roadmaps solutions in the form of the Clinton-Gore 21st Century Agenda for Cities and Suburbs.
Author: Andrew Cuomo
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Published: 1998-10-01
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9780788185946
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →HUD examined 2 questions: what is the state of cities today? And second, what more can the Clinton-Gore Admin. do to prepare our cities to meet the economic and social challenges of the future? Three findings are discussed: (1) driven by a robust national economy, cities are fiscally and economically the strongest they've been in a decade; (2) despite recent gains, cities still face the triple threat of concentrated poverty, shrinking populations, and middle-class flight that began 2 decades ago; and (3) cities face 3 fundamental opportunity gaps -- in jobs, education, and housing -- that are critical to reducing poverty and attracting and retaining middle-class families.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 142896648X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Berkeley (Calif.). Office of the Mayor
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John O. Norquist
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
Published: 1998-05-25
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Charleston, South Carolina, and its police chief and mayor are mentioned in this look at the "efforts of pioneering communities that have decided to take the future into their own hands."--Jacket.
Author: Andrew Cuomo
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2000-09
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0756702518
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Identifies 4 megaforces that are shaping the future of the Nation's cities and shows their impact: (1) new high-tech, global economy which has been a driver of recent expansion in the U.S. economy; (2) new demographic shifts that are reshaping our cities, including more ethnic diversity and a rapidly growing elderly population; (3) new housing challenge, with higher rents and housing prices that present new threats to housing affordability; and (4) continued decentralization -- the continuing shift of jobs and people to the metro. edge -- that is threatening the stability of existing communities and the development of new livable, sustainable communities.