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The Changing Nature of U.S. Urban Policy Evaluation: The Case of the Urban Development Action Grant.
Peer reviewedBarnekov, Timothy; Hart, Douglas – Urban Studies, 1993
Assesses, using the Urban Development Action Grant as a case study, why the evaluation of American urban economic initiatives has declined. The authors conclude that this decline occurred because of such evaluation's perceived lack of utility for policymakers and ineffectiveness in actually informing either policy or practice. The problems…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Economic Change, Economic Progress, Evaluation Problems
Peer reviewedWolman, Harold L.; And Others – Urban Studies, 1994
Evaluates the performance, between 1980 and 1990, of 12 supposedly revitalized cities on the basis of objective indicators of the economic well-being of their residents and compares the cities' performances to those of other cities that were equally distressed in 1980. The evaluation, with three exceptions, reveals no evidence of revitalization.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Economic Climate, Economic Status, Employment Level
