Understanding Central City Hardship

Nathan, Richard P.; Adams, Charles F.

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“…Nathan and Adams (1976) found significant problems in more than half of the fifty-five largest central cities studied. Analyses of fiscal problems in large city samples of forty (Schmid et aI., 1975) and thirty (Dearborn, 1977) communities each disclosed serious fiscal needs among large municipalities.…”

Section: Sample Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Emphasizing the importance of funneling all federal aid for cities through the states, the report analyzed the impact of federal and state aid upon four indicators of city hardship, as explored in previous studies (Nathan and Adams, 1976;Cuciti, 1978). The NGA study concluded that responsiveness to city problems is best met by a combination of federal and state aid.…”

Section: Intergovernmental Responses To City Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The units of analysis in this study are cities -the forty-seven largest U.S. cities with 1970 populations of at least 300,000 (see Appendix).3 This group of large cities is similar to samples used in several analyses mentioned above, particularly those of Nathan and Adams (1976) and Cuciti (1978). Such a sample gives attention to cities with empirically documented distress and to the major urban population and problem centers in states.…”

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State Aid and City Needs: An Examination of Residual State Aid to Large Cities

Pelissero¹

1984

The Journal of Politics

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State Aid and City Needs: An Examination of Residual State Aid to Large Cities

Pelissero¹

1984

The Journal of Politics

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“…Each city's ratio was then entered into the formula. We can then use the 'scores' on the index to compare cities (Nathan and Adams, 1976).…”

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Metropolitanisation and Political Change in South Africa

Cameron¹,

Alvarez²

2005

Metropolitanization and Political Change

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“…The new quest for regional solutions to urban problems was initiated with the publications of such authors as David Rusk (1993) and Anthony Downs (1994). Alarmed by the Census statistics that demonstrated disturbing trends of environmental degradation, suburban sprawl, growing disparities between central city and suburbs, increasing concentration of poverty in central cities, and suburban residential segregation (Kasarda, 1993;Ledebur & Barnes, 1992;Adams, 1976, Nathan andAdams, 1989), these authors advocated the creation of regional authorities with wide areas of responsibility. While a variety of competing views on the peculiarities of organization of metropolitan governance exists today, there are some common themes.…”

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Fragmentation, sprawl and economic development.

Ardashev

Grigoriy²

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSFirst of all I would like to thank Dr. Hank Savitch for his guidance, help and patience. Thank you, Dr. Savitch! It was an honor working with you on this and other projects over the last several years.I wish to thank all the members of my dissertation committee for their advice and support. In addition, I would like to thank Dr. Peter Meyer for his valuable comments and ideas for this research. Fragmentation of governments and urban sprawl has been a subject of debate for a considerable time. The discussion often centers on whether space (sprawl) and politics (fragmentation) make a difference in the economic development of metropolitan areas. The hypothesis was set to follow the argument of polycentric school of thought on the organization of metropolitan governance. It was expected that competitive local public economies would be beneficial to the economic performance of the regions. Regarding the effect of sprawl, the study assumed that following the lines of free-market defense of sprawl it would be positively associated with economic performance of the metropolitan areas. The aim of this study was to examine empirical evidence and find support for either of these theories.The dissertation is organized in six chapters. The first chapter introduces the issues of metropolitan governance. Chapter II reviews dominant theories of metropolitan governance, defines fragmentation and sprawl, outlines the discussion on cost and benefits of urban sprawl, and examines theoretical and empirical research linking fragmentation and urban sprawl. Chapter III describes the research methodology by formulating specific models used for this investigation and outlining the variables used in the models. The results of the statistical analysis are presented in The hypothesis about the positive impact of sprawl on economic performance of metropolitan areas was not confirmed. In fact, the opposite is true at least for a large part of US metropolitan areas. Metropolitan areas with population between 200,000 and 1,000,000 with higher levels of sprawl demonstrate weaker economic performance.The associations between sprawl, fragmentation and such desirable and beneficial to economic performance indicators as human capital, affluence and tax effort are statistically significant and they take the same direction as the ones with economic performance -positive for fragmentation and negative for sprawl.Previous research suggests that the impacts of local governance structure on metropolitan economic performance may be secondary to the trends in state economic development. Regression analysis performed in this study reveals that the impact of fragmentation and sprawl on economic performance of metro areas is comparable to that of their states' economic performance.While fragmentation and sprawl are weaker predictors of economic performance than economic development factors (human capital and tax effort), controlling for these factors did not render the relationships between fragmentation, sprawl and economic performance statisti...

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Understanding Central City Hardship

Cited by 93 publications

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State Aid and City Needs: An Examination of Residual State Aid to Large Cities

State Aid and City Needs: An Examination of Residual State Aid to Large Cities

Metropolitanisation and Political Change in South Africa

Fragmentation, sprawl and economic development.

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