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Introduction: Solving America's Urban Crisis |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--SOLVING AMERICA'S URBAN CRISIS |
| Author: Editor |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 840 Words, 5,484 Characters |
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No one denies that America's big cities are facing ever bigger problems, ranging from declining economic growth and accelerating crime to serious deterioration of their infrastructure. A sense of inevitable decline and fall seems to pervade many urban areas.
Yet, as has often been the case in U.S. history, a coalition of forces has emerged that is helping cities and their inhabitants adjust to the demands of a more highly educated and skilled society. Federal, state, and city governments as well as private citizens and corporations have come together to form this new urban coalition.
They stress the positive, citing the many significant assets that big cities still ...
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...ublic-private partnerships, Daley insists, major urban centers can more effectively address issues of national concern.
It can be argued that if the son of the ultimate city boss--Richard Daley--can make the adjustment from city machine politics to public/private cooperation, so can anyone, and that the possibility of a renaissance of the American city may become a reality after all.
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