TY - JOUR
AU - Spitzer, Scott J.
AB - 140 Publius/Fall 2001 Inside Game Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America, by David Rusk. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press, 1999, 375 pp., $28.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. David Rusk's most recent book provides policymakers and students of urban politics and planning with a well-researched, well-written, and persuasive argument for the merits of regional policy strategies to addressing the most serious problems of metropolitan areas. Rusk argues that the associated problems of metropolitan racial segregation and urban poverty stem from the inexorable growth of metropolitan sprawl, itself a consequence of the structure of American federalism. He is critical of federal public housing policies and local urban economic development programs as being inadequate to the task of addressing these core challenges facing America's urban areas. As an alternative to these "insider" strategies, he proposes a set of "outsider" regional approaches to stemming the flow of metropolitan sprawl, and for dealing more effectively with the impact that such sprawl has on racial segregation and concentrated poverty. This is not a book written in the detached, objective tone of a scholarly work, despite being solidly based on comprehensive analyses of multiple data sources. Rather, Rusk is open about his regionalism policy 
TI - Book Reviews
JF - Publius: The Journal of Federalism
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a004917
DA - 2001-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/book-reviews-08y9Y3Z97S
SP - 140
EP - 149
VL - 31
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -