Readings in urban economics: issues and public policy

1. Introduction / Robert W. Wassmer

Pt. I. Urban Growth

2. Draw of Downtown: Big Growth Predicted for Many U.S. Cities / Dorian Friedman

3. State of the Cities: Downtown is Up / The Economist

4. Urban Diversity and Economic Growth / John M. Quigley

5. Projecting Growth of Metropolitan Areas / Edwin S. Mills and Luan' Sende Lubuele

Pt. II. Location, Land Use, and Urban Sprawl

6. Dreams of Fields: The New Politics of Urban Sprawl / Timothy Egan

7. Al Gore Has a New Worry: "Smart Growth" to cure "suburban sprawl" is the newest rationale for government growth / George F. Will

8. Urban Spatial Structure / Alex Anas, Richard Arnott and Kenneth A. Small

9. How America's Cities are Growing: The Big Picture / Anthony Downs

10. Prove It: The Costs and Benefits of Sprawl / Peter Gordon and Harry W. Richardson

11. Comment on Carl Abbott's "The Portland Region: Where Cities and Suburbs Talk to Each Other - and Often Agree" / William A. Fischel

12. Do Suburbs Need Cities? / Richard A. Voith

Pt. III. Local Economic Development Incentives

13. Ohio Looks Hard at What's Lost Through Business Subsidies / Neal R. Peirce

14. Jobs, Productivity, and Local Economic Development: What Implications Does Economic Research Have for the Role of Government / Timothy J. Bartik

15. Sports, Jobs, and Taxes: Are New Stadiums Worth the Cost? / Roger G. Noll and Andrew Zimbalist

16. Can Local Incentives Alter a Metropolitan City's Economic Development? / Robert W. Wassmer

Pt. IV. Race, Employment, and Poverty in Urban Areas

17. Big U.S. Cities Carry Welfare Burden: Deep Poverty, Isolation from Suburbs Keep Many from Independence / Laura Meckler

18. Race Panel Divided Over Poverty: Experts Disagree on Causes, Cures of Urban Problems / Louis Freedberg

19. No Easy Way Out: Study Finds Urban Poverty Digs Heels In / Jamie Woodwell and Susan Rosenblum

20. Inner Cities / Edwin S. Mills and Luan' Sende Lubuele

21. Information on the Spatial Distribution of Job Opportunities within Metropolitan Areas / Keith R. Ihlanfeldt

Pt. V. Urban Public Education

22. Why I'm Reluctantly Backing Vouchers / Arthur Levine

23. Current Issues in Public Urban Education / Lawrence O. Picus

24. Why is it So Hard to Help Central City Schools? / William Duncombe and John Yinger

Pt. VI. Urban Public Housing

25. Miracle in New Orleans: What Do a Bunch of College Professors Know About Fixing Public-housing Projects? A Lot, it Turns Out / S. C. Gwynne

26. Urban Housing Policy in the 1990s / Stuart A. Gabriel

27. Dynamics of Housing Assistance Spells / Thomas L. Hungerford

Pt. VII. Urban Crime

28. Mystery of the Falling Crime Rate / David C. Anderson

29. Bright Lights, Big City, and Safe Streets: Urban Dwellers Bask in Greater Sense of Security, as Crime Rates Drop Even Further / Leon Lazaroff and Jim Blair

30. Urban Crime: Issues and Policies / Ann Dryden Witte

31. Estimating the Economic Model of Crime with Panel Data / Christopher Cornwell and William N. Trumbull

Pt. VIII. Urban Transportation

32. Or, Why Motorists Always Outsmart Planners, Economists, and Traffic Engineers: The Unbridgeable Gap / The Economist

33. You Ride, I'll Pay: Social Benefits and Transit Subsidies / Janet Rothenburg Pack

34. Urban Traffic Congestion: A New Approach to the Gordian Knot / Kenneth A. Small

35. Infrastructure Services and the Productivity of Public Capital: The Case of Streets and Highways / Marlon G. Boarnet

Pt. IX. Local Government

36. Why I Love the Suburbs / Debra Meyers

37. Metropolitan Fiscal Disparities / Roy Bahl

38. Economic Influences on the Structure of Local Government in U.S. Metropolitan Areas / Ronald C. Fisher and Robert W. Wassmer

App. Academic Journals in applied and Policy Orientated Urban Economics.