Metro Futures: Economic Solutioins for Cities and Their Suburbs

by Joel Rogers, Joshua Cohen, Daniel D. Luria

The future of America is the future of our cities. Restoring their health and wealth is the key to advancing racial justice, to raising and equalizing wages, to promoting equal opportunity, to saving our environment....I urge you to read and consider Metro Futures .--The Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., from the Foreword

Metro Futures shifts the discussion of urban issues from despair over inner-city problems to solutions that link urban and suburban well-being. With its specific state and federal policy recommendations, Metro Futures offers timely hope for meaningful change.

"The New Democracy Forum series is a civic treasure....A truly good idea, carried out with intelligence and panache."--Robert Pinsky

The New Democracy Forum is a series of short paperback originals exploring creative solutions to our most urgent national concerns.

104 pages, Paperback

First published November 10, 1999

Reviews

[Seth Wilpan · Rating 4 out of 5]

An elaboration of the theme of the ravages of the Walmart ethos and the general race to the bottom, but inattentive to consumerism and other manifestations of cultural control. A good launching point for moving the political needle at the local level, and i will give it 4 stars instead of 3 for that practicle purpose it serves well.