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A Nation of Cities: The Federal Government and Urban America, 1933-1965

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The article was published on 1975-10-02 and is currently open access. It has received 138 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Central government & Government.

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Austerity urbanism: American cities under extreme economy

Jamie Peck
- 18 Dec 2012 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors locate these developments in the context of mutating processes of neoliberal urbanism, commenting on some of its social and spatial consequences, and argue that these conditions are defining a new operational matrix for urban politics.
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Was Postwar Suburbanization “White Flight”? Evidence from the Black Migration

TL;DR: The authors showed that urban whites responded to this black influx by relocating to the suburbs and rule out the indirect effect on urban housing prices as a cause, suggesting that black migrants may have been attracted to areas already undergoing suburbanization, and created an instrument for changes in urban diversity that predicts black migrant flows from southern states and assigns these flows to northern cities according to established settlement patterns.
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Cities and population health.

TL;DR: A conceptual framework for studying how urban living affects population health is presented, based on the assumption that urban populations are defined by size, density, diversity, and complexity and that health in urban populations is a function of living conditions that are in turn shaped by municipal determinants and global and national trends.
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Addressing the Vacant and Abandoned Property Problem

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of the 200 most populous central cities in the United States, conducted during the summer and fall of 1997, and on follow-up interviews with a portion of the survey population, conducted in 1998, revealed that vacant and abandoned property is perceived as a significant problem by elected and appointed officials in the nation's largest central cities.