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urban policy (McCann 2001:3). Urban problems and public policy tie into urban economics as the theme relates urban problems, such as poverty or crime, to

Retrieved 9 August 2009. Solberg, Carl (May 1969). "Immigration and Urban Social Problems in Argentina and Chile, 1890–1914". The Hispanic American Historical

Washington, D.C. The Urban Institute was established in 1968 by the Lyndon B. Johnson administration to study the nation's urban problems and evaluate the

been criticized as a means of urban renewal for not adequately addressing the social problems that caused the initial problems in the area.[citation needed]

deep sense of responsibility to its urban constituencies and attempts to assist them in coping with their problems." In 1995, P.E. Mulhollan authored the

report on the federal role in solving urban problems. HUD is administered by the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Its headquarters is located

Urban science is an interdisciplinary field that studies diverse urban issues and problems. Based on research findings of various disciplines such as history

and urban sprawl. Solutions to the last mile problem in public transit have included the use of feeder buses, bicycling infrastructure, and urban planning

floods and 2007 Jakarta flood. Urban areas are also far more prone to violence, drugs, and other urban social problems. In the United States, industrialization

Urban planning in the Soviet Bloc countries during the Cold War era was dictated by ideological, political, social as well as economic motives. Unlike