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<p>First published in 1980 <i>National Resources and Urban Policy </i>critically examines how resource constraints affect urban development and urban policy making. With case studies from the United States, several European countries and Japan it brings themes like federal assistance programs; local government revenues; urban resources, the American capital market, and federal programs; urban investment controls in Britain; local government investment expenditures in West Germany; Japan confronts its cities; New York City fiscal crisis; public housing in metropolitan London; and restructuring the resource flow. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of urban politics, public administration, urban studies, public policy and political studies. </p>