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Toward an Understanding of Metropolitan America Report of the Social Science Panel on the Significance of Community in the Metropolitan Environment of the Advisory Committee to the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Assembly of Behavioral and Socia (1974) / Chapter Skim
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Research Problems in Metropolitanization and the Significance of Community
Pages 141-146

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... An expanded but sharply focused research effort is essential to provide the basic understanding required for the formulation of innovative policies. The following list of research problems deserves priority consideration for research funding.
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From page 142...
... • A measurement of the need for subsidies from state governments or the federal government can be approximated by comparing a summation of all fiscal resources currently obtained in metropolitan areas from local taxation with a summation of all operating costs of local governments within metropolitan areas. • To what extent will the decentralization of government services affect the dollar costs of service delivery?
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From page 143...
... One useful but neglected approach would be the analysis of the frequency and distances of daily trips (for all purposes) of various household members, with controls on socioeconomic status, family life cycle stage, and size of urban area.
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... What social function, for example, do the 400 million daily telephone calls perform? RESIDENTIAL CHOICE • What are the major policy factors that affect residential choice?
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... • A number of comparative studies of the structures and functions of communities in various parts of the United States should be made to verify the generalizations concerning the evolving nature of American culture. In particular, communitywide or larger-scale studies need to be conducted in counties adjacent to metropolitan areas to determine the extent of their changing social and economic structure.
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... • Is the local neighborhood best understood as a singular territory or as several more or less inclusive territorial groupings where some people define the smaller units as their neighborhoods and others define the entire grouping as their neighborhood?
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