Inside game outside game winning strategies for saving urban America

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Journeying through Urban America -- Pt. 1. The Inside Game -- 2. Bedford Stuyvesant: Beginnings -- 3. Walnut Hills, Jamaica Plain, and Other Neighborhoods -- 4. Pilot Small's Airport and the RKO Keith's Balcony: Sprawl and Race -- 5. The Sprawl Machine -- 6. The Poverty Machine -- 7. The Deficit Machine -- Pt. 2. The Outside Game -- 8. Portland, Oregon: Taming Urban Sprawl -- 9. Montgomery County, Maryland: Mixing Up the Neighborhood -- 10. Dayton, Ohio's ED/GE: The Rewards (and Limits) of Voluntary Agreements -- 11. Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota: The Winning Coalition -- Pt. 3. Changing the Rules of the Game -- 12. Changing Federal Public Housing Policies -- 13. Building Regional Coalitions -- 14. Changing Attitudes, Changing Laws.

"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.".

"State government action, Rusk argues, is particularly critical 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."--BOOK JACKET.