Agenda for a City

Abstract

"Service delivery is the specialty of the city government. The more competently it performs this function, the greater will be its bargaining power in Albany and Washington. Successful local program management and supportive local constit uents in this urban colossus cannot be ignored by other governments ... This, therefore, is the problem-rich prospect for New York as it enters the 1970s. On the positive side, however, there are a diversified, resilient and growing economy, and a long record of comparative political stability. One may optimistically hope that the present period is one of growing pains...."