ABSTRACT
The case of Rosedale offers many lessons for those interested in rebuilding urban neighborhoods. It also offers important lessons for those desiring to manage racial transition and change in a more effective and humane manner. Critics of efforts to revitalize Rosedale, enlightened through hindsight, would undoubtedly argue that public officials responded more to political pressures than to rational planning arguments when they attempted to reverse the fortunes of the community. Numerous public policies designed to bring about planned social change in cities were initiated after World War II. The purpose of liberal public policy is to use the government as an instrument of intervention in pursuit of the public good. Public-housing policy has typically been implemented without adequate consideration of national and local goals in the educational arena. The public housing agencies in the urban centers built substantial quantities of housing, but almost always in lower income or black neighborhoods.
