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Introduction / Gary Gappert and Harold M. Rose -- Pte. 1. The changing concerns of national urban policy: 1. The political economy of urban America: national urban policy revisited / Jesse Burkhead -- 2. The large city as fiscal artifact / Seymour Sacks with Patrick J. Sullivan -- Pte. 2. Urban housing markets and their interpretation: 3. The political economy of urbanization in advanced capitalist societies: the case of the United States / David Harvey -- 4. Short-term housing cycles in a dualistic metropolis / Brian J. L. Berry -- 5. Socioeconomic transition and housing values: a comparative analysis of urban neighborhoods / Hugh O. Nourse and Donald Phares -- Pte. 3. Analyzing the dynamics of urban spatial changes: 6. Emerging patterns of industrial activity within large metropolitan areas and their impact on the central city work force / Charles M. Christian -- 7. The street gang in its milieu / David Ley -- 8. Locational and ecological aspects of urban public sector housing: the israeli case / Amiram Gonen -- Pte. 4. Perspectives on urban stress and population changes: 9. Urban black migration and social stress: the influence of regional differences in patterns of socialization / Harold M. Rose -- 10. The periphery at the pole: Lima, Perú / Milton Santos -- 11. Indicators of labor market functioning and urban social distress / Robert Mier, Thomas Vietorisz and Jean-Ellen Giblin -- 12. The distribution of coloured immigrants in britain / Ceri Peach, Stuart Winchester and Robert Woods -- Pte. 5. Poverty and resources: analysis and mobilization: 13. Urban work in a changing economy / Scott Greer and Ann Lennarson Greer -- 14. The social economy in urban working-class communities / Martin D. Lowenthal -- 15. Rethinking urban problems: inequality and the grants economy / John P. Blair, Gary Gappert and David C. Warner -- 16. Recent trends in corporate urban development programs / Jules Cohn -- Pte. 6. Three perspectives on evaluation: 17. Social indicators and society: some key dimensions / Michael J. Flax, Michael Springer and Jeremy B. Taylor -- 18. Program evaluation and policy analysis of community development corporations / Harvey A. Garn -- 19. An evaluation of evaluation research: when professional dreams meet local needs / Michael Barndt -- An epilogue on policy: 20. Alternative agendas for urban policy and research in the post-affluent future / Gary Gappert.