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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part One: Overview -- Introduction -- Part Two: White Papers -- Local Government Long-Term Liabilities: Pensions, Other Postemployment Benefits, and Infrastructure -- Contemporary Fiscal Challenges and Positions of US Cities -- Exploring Urban Governments' Fiscal Challenges -- Linking Resources to Government Services: Is There a Future for Benefit-Based Financing? -- Beyond Political Consolidation: Prospects for Effective Local Governance through Self-Organized Collaborative Networks -- When Public Pension Reforms Fail or Appear to Be Impossible: Are Unbalanced Budgets, Deficits, and Government Collapse the Only Answer? -- List of Contributors -- Back Cover.

American cities continue to experience profound fiscal crises. Falling revenues cannot keep pace with the increased costs of vital public services, infrastructure development and improvement, and adequately funded pensions. Chicago presents an especially vivid example of these issues, as the state of Illinois's rocky fiscal condition compounds the city's daunting budget challenges. In The People's Money, Michael A. Pagano curates a group of essays that emerged from discussions at the 2018 UIC Urban Forum. The contributors explore fundamental questions related to measuring the fiscal health of cities, including how cities can raise revenue, the accountability of today's officials for the future financial position of a city, the legal and practical obstacles to pension reform and a balanced budget, and whether political collaboration offers an alternative to the competition that often undermines regional governance.

The 'infrastructural ideal': expansive, contested, eroding /Philip Ashton --Infrastructure of urban play /Charles Hoch --Planning and financing infrastructure in the Trump years: what can the administration learn from previous large infrastructure programs? /Beverly Bunch --The built environment: how infrastructure shapes city design today and tomorrow /Sanjeev Vidyarthi --The city within and the architecture around: architecture of tomorrow's city /Sean Lally --The power to move people: public art and public transit /Bill Burton.

In this new volume, Michael A. Pagano curates essays focusing on the neighborhood's role in urban policy solutions. The papers emerged from dynamic discussions among policymakers, researchers, public intellectuals, and citizens at the 2014 UIC Urban Forum. As the writers show, the greater the city, the more important its neighborhoods and their distinctions. The topics focus on sustainable capital and societal investments in people and firms at the neighborhood level. Proposed solutions cover a range of possibilities for enhancing the quality of life for individuals, households, and neighborhoods. These include everything from microenterprises to factories; from social spaces for collective and social action to private facilities; affordable housing and safety to gated communities; and from neighborhood public education to cooperative, charter, and private schools

Digital technologies and the future of cities.

In this new volume, Michael A. Pagano curates essays focusing on the neighborhood's role in urban policy solutions. The papers emerged from dynamic discussions among policymakers, researchers, public intellectuals, and citizens at the 2014 UIC Urban Forum. As the writers show, the greater the city, the more important its neighborhoods and their distinctions. The topics focus on sustainable capital and societal investments in people and firms at the neighborhood level. Proposed solutions cover a range of possibilities for enhancing the quality of life for individuals, households, and neighborhoods. These include everything from microenterprises to factories; from social spaces for collective and social action to private facilities; affordable housing and safety to gated communities; and from neighborhood public education to cooperative, charter, and private schools.