In this paper a framework is developed for analyzing trade-off possibilities among urban outcomes resulting from public-funded community development activities. The purpose is to identify complementarities and substitutions which exist among public service outputs (outcomes), thereby allowing a study of the implicit trade-offs among outputs which result from decisions on the allocation of community development resources. This is the first of two papers on the subject. It is intended to provide here a conceptual overview of the approach and a numerical illustration.
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