Abstract
AMERICAN METROPOLIS grapples with two related developments in this last third of the twentieth century: the metropolitanization of black communities and mounting pressures for more constructive application of technology to human problem-solving, particularly in urban areas. Both developments thrust complex and multi-dimensional policy issues in the faces of urban decision-makers. Both paint and shape the institutional dynamics and the physical appearance of many large Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs).1 Their relationships to each other are frequently perceived as inverse: technology, the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks,2 is believed to be the trigger and power of American capitalism and militarypolitical superiority; blacks are portrayed as retarding agents in the capitalist process and potential internal security risks to be contained militarily. Technology is characterized
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