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GCI Working Paper Series - Author Last Name: "P"
Pagano, Michael A.
Perry, David C.
Financing
Infrastructure in the 21st Century City: “How Did I Get Stuck
Holding the Bag?”
Michael A. Pagano
Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Public Administration,
Great Cities Senior Faculty Fellow
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois
at Chicago
David C. Perry
Professor, Urban Planning and Policy
Director of Great Cities Institute
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois
at Chicago
May 2006
GCP-06-02
This essay identifies critical issues in financing city infrastructure
and a realistic set of options available to policymakers. In particular,
the report examines trends toward decentralization and fragmentation
of governmental and financial institutions and toward market-based and
consumer- or customer-oriented policies.
Persky, Joseph
The Proposed New Interstate 69
Highway: Is It a Cost-Effective Rural Economic Development Took for
Southwest Indiana?
Wim Wiewel, Joseph J. Persky, and Mark Edward
Sendzik
August 1999
GCP-99-3
This study examines the cost-effectiveness of the Evansville-to-Bloomington
portion of the proposed new Interstate 69 highway in Southwest Indiana
in fulfilling its stated purpose of stimulating economic development
in four rural Indiana counties. We compare the proposed highway with
other rural economic development programs and strategies such as rural
enterprise zones, federal economic development programs, business incubators,
and local industrial development groups. In addition, we use a variety
of state cost and job creation estimates, cost calculations, and comparison
figures. Although this study does not take a position on whether the
proposed new highway should be built, we conclude that if the purpose
of the I-69 project is economic development in these rural counties,
far more cost-efficient alternatives almost certainly exist.
Central
City and Suburban Development: Who Pays and Who Benefits?
Joseph Persky and Wim Wiewel
May 1996
GCP-96-8
This paper addresses the overall social costs of firms locating in the
outer ring suburbs of large urban areas. The evidence presented suggests
that for society as a whole, deconcentration of development to outer
ring suburban areas brings few or no net gains while presenting significant
inequities in the distribution of costs and benefits.
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