Books in the Urban and Regional Policy and Development Studies series

Neighborhood planning programs involve citizens in developing plans and self-help projects for their neighbourhoods through local organisations. Based on a survey of fifty-one neighbourhood planning programs and in-depth case studies, Planning with Neighborhoods offers the first comprehensive description and evaluation of the effectiveness of these programs.

Argues that the long-standing debate about the proper role of the government in providing low-income housing needs to be clarified because older approaches and solutions are no longer appropriate. The authors review the history of public housing policies and programs and deal with such issues as the nature of housing inadequacy, the groups most affected by it, and the role of the private sector.

Analyses the ways in which experts can aid a political community in choosing public statistics for citizens to use in making policy judgments. In contrast to the study of social indicators, which has emphasized descriptions and models of social change, Duncan MacRae stresses that the relevant measures should be selected in view of their potential applications.

Housing desegregation is one of America's last civil rights frontiers. Drawing on the expertise of social scientists, civil rights attorneys, and policy analysts, these original essays present the first comprehensive examination of housing integration and federal policy covering the last two decades.

For the first time, a formal benefit-cost requirement plays an integral role in US environmental policymaking, and in this volume, some of the nation's leading experts on environmental policy appraise the effects of President Reagan's Executive Order No. 12291. Originally published in 1984.