ABSTRACT
This chapter surveys the leading issues facing policymakers at the urban level. The issues can be placed usefully in two broad divisions. The first includes the experiences, analyses and policies regarding the distribution of urban activity among various distinct urban units, which may be called "among-city" issues. The second division contains those issues concerned with the internal structure of cities, or "within-city" issues. This survey will focus primarily on policy issues in the realm of within-city problems. In particular, the chapter analyzes several aspects of urban land development and the integration of private and public interests in that process. The analysis begins with an appreciation of several among-city issues in order to illustrate some of the ideas and policy problems arising at that level. Many economic base theories are naïve in this sense, particularly in the area of policy formation with respect to urban growth.
