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Messinger, Ruth; Breslau, Andrew – Social Policy, 1993
In spite of prevailing opinion, U.S. cities are alive and well and continue to play a major role in the nation's social fabric. The federal policies of recent years must be reversed to keep cities functioning as the place where the United States reimagines itself and learns to manage difference. (SLD)
Descriptors: Census Figures, Economic Factors, Government Role, Inner City

Alperovitz, Gar – Social Policy, 1993
There is little likelihood of significant new funding for cities. The future may require real decentralization in the ways we live, with fundamental restructuring of political and economic institutions. A system of communities structured locally around new institutions and supported by regional planning might sustain a different culture. (SLD)
Descriptors: Culture, Decentralization, Economic Factors, Federal Aid
Deffenbaugh, W. S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
The growth of cities has created many new social, economic, and educational problems in the United States, for within a half century the country has become not predominantly rural but predominantly urban. The cities of the country have become the centers of political, industrial, and commercial power, as well as of wealth, education, and culture.…
Descriptors: Publicity, Curriculum Development, Individual Instruction, Play