The Rebirth of Urban America

Publication Date: October 1987

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Kenneth J. Beirne

Research Area: Government; Social conditions

Keywords: Society

Type: Report

Abstract:

As part of this urban policy for the next decade, the federal government must recognize and accept the inextricable links between cities and suburbs and the need for the primary intergovernmental relationships of these jurisdictions to be with their states. The federal government must cease to interpose itself as the dominant influence in the nation's cities. It has neither the financial capacity nor knowledge of local needs sufficient to play such a role. It must seek instead to reinforce the improved health of the local governments under the federalism policies of recent years by further liberating local urban governments from restrictive federal programs and regulations.