Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Douglas Yates / 'The Ungovernable City'. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 5 page book review that outlines Yates' premise about the local governmental inadequacies that have resulted in the diminished capacity urban centers, including New York and New Haven. No additional sources cited.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_Yates.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
Community Affairs. His life experience as well as his educational background contributed to his ability to theorize about the development of urban cities and the issues raised by their
ever increasing inadequacies. Yates work, The Ungovernable City, which was published in 1977, reflects the issues of urban growth and urban planning during the early part of the second
half of the 20th century. II. The Ungovernable City: Overview In the premise to The Ungovernable City Yates defined the
premise of his work and research. He stated that the "premise of the book is that we cannot understand the failure of urban problem solving without a clear understanding
of the way the urban policy-making system works. Indeed that the system constitutes a great part of the original problem" (Preface xi). Yates uses the examples of New York
and New Haven, two cities that have suffered through considerable "growing pains" and have not been able to balance urban problem solving with urban problems. Yates had three important
areas that he proposed to study in the work: 1. the political and administrative sides of urban government in relationships to the delivery of urban services (Preface xii);
2. the relationship between urban planning and the particular examples of New York and New Haven, with a definitive focus on the history or urban problems in these cities
(Preface xiii); 3. durable solutions to the seemingly pessimistic perspective on urban government (Preface xiv). Yates begins his work by recounting the history of urban problem solving
during the 1950s and 1960s and the problems that were faced as urban communities grew. Yates recognized that social class structures and the prevalence of urban poor provided a
...