The future once happened here : New York, D.C., L.A., and the fate of America's big cities - Siegel Frederick F 1945 (New York : Free Press, 1997)
1. The Riot Ideology -- New York. 2. The New Deal City. 3. The Ocean Hill-Brownsville Kulturkampf, or The Immigrant Option Rejected. 4. The Welfare Explosion: A Case of Malign Intentions -- The District of Columbia. 5. SNCC in Power. 6. The Great Society City. 7. Marion Builds His Machine. 8. D.C. Denouement -- Los Angeles. 9. The Capitalist Dynamo. 10. Police Politics. 11. The Centrifugal City. 12. Reconquista? 13. Secession? -- Back to the Future. 14. The Moral Deregulation of Public Space. 15. The Politics of Public Order. 16. Mining for Fool's Gold: New York's Make-Work Economy. 17. The Rudy Deal. 18. After the Revolution. 19. By Way of a Conclusion (to an ongoing story).
Includes index.
Keywords: Urban policy -- New York State -- New York; Urban policy -- Washington DC; Urban policy -- California -- Los Angeles; Urban policy -- United States