Ivan R. Dee
Pages: 448
Trim: 5¾ x 9
978-1-56663-398-7 • Paperback • August 2001 • $18.95 • (£12.95)
Myron Magnet is editor of City Journal, the highly respected quarterly magazine published in New York by The Manhattan Institute. He has also written The Dream and the Nightmare and edited What Makes Charity Work? and The Millennial City.
Part 1 Introduction 3
Part 2 I. CITIES
Chapter 3 Fate of a World City 10
Chapter 4 Why Did Ed Rendell Fizzle Out? 20
Chapter 5 Willie Brown Shows How Not to Run a City 34
Chapter 6 Jerry Brown's No-Nonsense New Age for Oakland 47
Chapter 7 Why LA is Bouncing Back 59
Part 8 II. CRIME
Chapter 9 What We've Learned About Policing 70
Chapter 10 Why Teen Thugs Get Away with Murder 81
Chapter 11 How New York is Winning the Drug War 90
Chapter 12 Why the Jails Didn't Explode 100
Part 13 III. EDUCATION
Chapter 14 How Teacher's Unions Handcuff Schools 110
Chapter 15 Why Johnny's Teacher Can't Teach 125
Chapter 16 The Invisible Miracle of Catholic Schools 141
Chapter 17 The School Reform That Dares Not Speak Its Name 156
Chapter 18 The Schools That Voucïhers Built
Chapter 19 Yes, Vouchers Are Constitutional 180
Part 20 IV. WELFARE
Chapter 21 Compassion Gone Mad 192
Chapter 22 Welfare Reform Discoveries 206
Chapter 23 The Real Welfare Problem is Illegitimacy 222
Chapter 24 The Teen Mommy Track 236
Chapter 25 In Foster Care, Children Come Last 247
Chapter 26 Putting Children First: A New Direction for Welfare Reform 256
Part 27 V. HOMELESSNESS
Chapter 28 Let's Stop Being Nutty About the Mentally Ill 266
Chapter 29 Homeless Advocates in Outer Space 274
Part 30 VI. THE ECONOMY
Chapter 31 The Unexpected Lessons of Times Square's Comeback 284
Chapter 32 New York's Million Missing Jobs 294
Chapter 33 Let's Break Up the Big Cities 303
Part 34 VII. THE PHYSICAL CITY
Chapter 35 Why Lamposts and Phone Booths Matter 320
Chapter 36 Urban Lessons from Paris 327
Chapter 37 We Don't Need Subsidized Housing 336
Chapter 38 When Cleanliness Isn't a Virtue 346
Part 39 VIII. IMMIGRANTS
Chapter 40 Bombay on the Hudson 356
Chapter 41 Why Koreans Succeed 371
Part 42 IX. QUALITY OF LIFE
Chapter 43 BIDs Really Work 388
Chapter 44 Quiet, Please 404
Chapter 45 Toward a More Civil City 413
Part 46 Contributors 421
Part 47 Index 425
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