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If we are now more appreciative of the severity of our urban problems than we were in the past, we are still far from agreement on the need for a basic national urban policy. One difficulty is that it is hard to distinguish between a miscellany of federal, state, and local policies and what might appropriately be called a basic national policy for a given area of concern. Historically, we have arrived at a relatively coherent set of policies on various matters of national interest by trial and error over a fairly long period of time. Unfortunately, under current conditions in our cities, we would pay a high price for a leisurely movement toward effective national urban policy. The process must be compressed if at all possible.
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Burns, L.S., Friedmann, J. (1985). National Urban Policy: Stage I. In: Burns, L.S., Friedmann, J. (eds) The Art of Planning. Environment, Development and Public Policy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2505-5_7
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