The Urban Public Economy

Kenneth Button

Chapter 10 in Urban Economics, 1976, pp 165-187 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract An American observer once stated that: Modern urban man is born in a publicly financed hospital, receives his education in a publicly supported school and university, spends a good part of his life travelling on publicly built transportation facilities, communicates through the post office or the quasi-public telephone system, drinks his public water, disposes of his garbage through the public removal system, reads his public library books, picnics in his public parks, is protected by his public police, fire, and health systems; eventually he dies, again in a hospital, and may even be buried in a public cemetery. Ideological conservatives notwithstanding, his everyday life is inextricably bound up with governmental decisions on these and numerous other local public services (Tietz [1968] p. 36).

Keywords: Local Authority; Central Government; Urban Economic; Royal Commission; Government Grant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1976
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-15661-0_10

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