Author: Oliver Perry WILLIAMS
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Suburban Differences and Metropolitan Policies. A Philadelphia Story. By Oliver P. Williams, Harold Herman, Charles S. Liebman, Thomas R. Dye. [With Maps.].
Suburban Differences and Metropolitan Policies
Author: Oliver P. Williams
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512809756
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The emergence of the metropolitan complex as the characteristic urban form in the United States has raised the question of the adequacy of traditional local governments to cope with changed local conditions. Most studies on this subject have focused on the attempts by suburbs to achieve metropolitan forms of government, stressing the interdependence of local units of government and the resulting need for integrative governments to formulate and execute area-wide policies. This book takes note of the failures of the metropolitan governmental proposals and turns attention to the forces for decentralization in the government of metropolitan areas. In other words, this is a study of the forces for independence—the values that impel local units to cherish and protect their separate identities. It seeks to describe these values not as sentiments, but as actual public policies realized through the actions of local governments. Specifically, it analyzes the way in which local municipal and school fiscal policies and the patterns of inter-local cooperative arrangements reflect the discrete circumstances of the individual suburbs. The locus of the study is the Philadelphia area, but its findings will be of interest to a national as well as a local audience. Approximately 300 municipalities are covered in the analysis. The findings of the study are discussed for their implications for future changes in the governing of metropolitan areas. Although scholarly in its approach to urban problems, this empirical study has been written in a way that will make it understandable and valuable to the lay reader. It is illustrated with maps and charts, and includes a lengthy statistical appendix.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512809756
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The emergence of the metropolitan complex as the characteristic urban form in the United States has raised the question of the adequacy of traditional local governments to cope with changed local conditions. Most studies on this subject have focused on the attempts by suburbs to achieve metropolitan forms of government, stressing the interdependence of local units of government and the resulting need for integrative governments to formulate and execute area-wide policies. This book takes note of the failures of the metropolitan governmental proposals and turns attention to the forces for decentralization in the government of metropolitan areas. In other words, this is a study of the forces for independence—the values that impel local units to cherish and protect their separate identities. It seeks to describe these values not as sentiments, but as actual public policies realized through the actions of local governments. Specifically, it analyzes the way in which local municipal and school fiscal policies and the patterns of inter-local cooperative arrangements reflect the discrete circumstances of the individual suburbs. The locus of the study is the Philadelphia area, but its findings will be of interest to a national as well as a local audience. Approximately 300 municipalities are covered in the analysis. The findings of the study are discussed for their implications for future changes in the governing of metropolitan areas. Although scholarly in its approach to urban problems, this empirical study has been written in a way that will make it understandable and valuable to the lay reader. It is illustrated with maps and charts, and includes a lengthy statistical appendix.
Suburban differences and metropolitan policies
Suburban Differences and Metropolitan Policies : a Philadelphia Story
Author: o. p. Williams (+and others)
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Suburban Differences and Mereopolitan Policies
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
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Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
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Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)
General Catalogue of Printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James Wells
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1910
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1910
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Catalogue of the Library of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. Library
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Category : Architectural design
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Category : Architectural design
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Category : Architecture
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