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Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure Royce Hanson' Editor Committee on National Urban Policy Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education National Research Council NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington, D.C. 1984

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SYMPOSIUM STEERING COMMITTEE GEORGE E. PETERSON (Chair), The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C. WILLIAM S. BUTCHER, Directorate of Engineering, National Science Foundation ROBERT DUCKWORTH, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development JOHN EBERHARD, Advisory Board on the Built Environment, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council BOB EDGAR, Member, U.S. House of Representatives JOHN HERNANDEZ, Deputy Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ROYCE HANSON, Committee on National Urban Policy, National Research Council MARTIN LANG, Camp, Dresser, and McKee, New York ROBERT McGARRY, Unified Industries, Inc., Springfield, Va. D. KELLY O'DAY, Consulting Engineer, Philadelphia, Pa. · ~ ~

COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL URBAN POLICY PAUL N. YLVISAKER (Chair), Graduate School of Education, Harvard University BRIAN d. L. BERRY, School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie- Mellon University HARVEY BROOKS, Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard University KENNETH B. CLARK, Clark, Phipps, Clark, and Harris, Inc., New York JOHN M. DE GROVE, State of Florida, Department of Community Affairs, Tallahassee JAMES M. HOWELL, First National Bank of Boston *HARVEY S. PERLOFF, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles GEORGE E. PETERSON, The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C. GAIL GARFIELD SCHWARTZ, Garfield Schwartz Associates, Inc., Washington, D.C. ROBERT C. WOOD, Government Department, Wesleyan University ROYCE HANSON, Study Director *Died August 1983 1V

Contents Introduction 1 The Evolution of the Urban Infrastructure in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries doe! A. Tarr 2 Assessing Infrastructure Needs: The State of the Art D. Kelly O'Day and Lance A. Neumann 3 Financing the Nation's Infrastructure Requirements George E. Peterson 4 Politics and Urban Public Facilities Heywood T. Sanders 5 The Future of Urban Public Works: New Ways of Doing Business Douglas C. Henton and Steven A. Waldhorn APPENDIXES A Program B Participants v 1 4 67 110 143 178 211 214