Inside Game/Outside Game Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America

by Rusk, David

• ISBN13: 9780815776512
• ISBN10: 0815776519
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Summary

For the past three decades, the federal government has targeted the poorest areas of American cities with a succession of antipoverty initiatives, yet these urban neighborhoods continue to decline. According to David Rusk, focusing on programs aimed at improving inner-city neighborhoods--playing the "inside game"--is a losing strategy. Achieving real improvement requires matching the "inside game" with a strong "outside game" of regional strategies to overcome growing fiscal disparities, concentrated poverty, and urban sprawl.In this persuasive book filled with personal observations as well as his trademark mastery of census statistics, Rusk argues that state legislatures must set new "rules of the game." He believes those rules require regional revenue or tax base sharing to reduce fiscal disparity, regional housing policies to ensure that all new developments have their fair share of low- and moderate-income housing to dissolve concentrations of poverty, and regional land-use planning and growth management to control urban sprawl.State government action, Rusk argues, is particularly crucial where regions are highly fragmented by many competing city, village, and township governments. He provides vivid success stories that demonstrate best practices for these regional strategies along with recommendations for building effective regional coalitions.A Century Foundation Book

Table of Contents

Journeying through Urban America	1	(21)
PART ONE: THE INSIDE GAME
Bedford Stuyvesant: Beginnings	21	(16)
Walnut Hills, Jamaica Plain, and Other Neighborhoods	37	(26)
Pilot Small's Airport and the RKO Keith's Balcony: Sprawl and Race	63	(19)
The Sprawl Machine	82	(19)
The Poverty Machine	101	(25)
The Deficit Machine	126	(27)
PART TWO: THE OUTSIDE GAME
Portland, Oregon: Taming Urban Sprawl	153	(25)
Montgomery County, Maryland: Mixing Up the Neighborhood	178	(23)
Dayton, Ohio's ED/GE: The Rewards (and Limits) of Voluntary Agreements	201	(21)
Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota: The Winning Coalition	222	(29)
PART THREE: CHANGING THE RULES OF THE GAME
Changing Federal Public Housing Policies	251	(26)
Building Regional Coalitions	277	(39)
Changing Attitudes, Changing Laws	316	(21)
Appendix	337	(28)
References	365	(4)
Index	369