LEADER 03969nam 2200589 450 001 9910798603603321 005 20230808195615.0 010 $a1-5017-0658-6 010 $a1-5017-0603-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501706035 035 $a(CKB)3710000000880787 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4697905 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001660793 035 $a(OCoLC)959554735 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse53819 035 $a(DE-B1597)478718 035 $a(OCoLC)979882443 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501706035 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4697905 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11271889 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL957841 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000880787 100 $a20161010h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aSaving our cities $ea progressive plan to transform urban America /$fWilliam W. Goldsmith 210 1$aIthaca, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (305 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a1-5017-0431-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tLooking Upstream -- $t1. Cities as Political Targets -- $t2. Cities as Budget-Cutting Targets -- $t3. Troubled City Schools -- $t4. Options for City Schools -- $t5. The Paradox of Plenty -- $t6. Drugs, Prisons, and Neighborhoods -- $t7. Drug-War Politics -- $tDemocracy, Inequality, Urban Policy -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aIn Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more productive, the environment better protected, the citizenry better educated, and the society more reflective, sensitive, and humane.Goldsmith argues that America has been in the habit of abusing its cities and their poorest suburbs, which are always the first to be blamed for society's ills and the last to be helped. As federal and state budgets, regulations, and programs line up with the interests of giant corporations and privileged citizens, they impose austerity on cities, shortchange public schools, make it hard to get nutritious food, and inflict the drug war on unlucky neighborhoods.Frustration with inequality is spreading. Parents and teachers call persistently for improvements in public schooling, and education experiments abound. Nutrition indicators have begun to improve, as rising health costs and epidemic obesity have led to widespread attention to food. The futility of the drug war and the high costs of unwarranted, unprecedented prison growth have become clear. Goldsmith documents a positive development: progressive politicians in many cities and some states are proposing far-reaching improvements, supported by advocacy groups that form powerful voting blocs, ensuring that Congress takes notice. When more cities forcefully demand enlightened federal and state action on these four interrelated problems-inequality, schools, food, and the drug war-positive movement will occur in traditional urban planning as well, so as to meet the needs of most residents for improved housing, better transportation, and enhanced public spaces. 606 $aUrban policy$zUnited States 606 $aCity planning$zUnited States 606 $aSociology, Urban$zUnited States 615 0$aUrban policy 615 0$aCity planning 615 0$aSociology, Urban 676 $a307.760973 700 $aGoldsmith$b William W.$011518 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798603603321 996 $aSaving our cities$93675252 997 $aUNINA