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Examines the federal policy response to urban problems in the aftermath of the 1992 riots in Los Angeles, CA. Although the federal government failed to enact a long-term urban aid initiative, a number of locally based comprehensive urban initiatives are under way in several cities across the country. The future of national urban policy, however, will require a reconceptualization of the problems of inner cities, & ultimately will depend on significant restructuring of fiscal federalism relationships among & between federal, state, & local governments. 2 Tables. Adapted from the source document.

This research considers the bureaucratic politics of recent riot crisis management and urban policy in Britain and the United States.1 The bureaucratic politics model is evaluated and a tentative framework for its development as a way of analysing governmental responses to urban riots is proposed.2 The links between crisis management in riots and wider urban policy are identified as being important in developing an understanding of the nature of post‐riot policy responses within the context of the broader political environment.

Introduction / Mark Baldassare -- A riot of color : the demographic setting / Peter A. Morrison and Ira S. Lowry -- Los Angeles coalition politics / Raphael J. Sonenshein -- The Rodney King beating verdicts / Hiroshi Fukurai, Richard Krooth, and Edgar W. Butler -- Public opinion before and after a spring of discontent / Lawrence Bobo ... [et al.] -- A profile of those arrested / Joan Petersilia and Allan Abrahamse -- Property damage and violence : a collective behavior analysis / Kathleen J. Tierney -- Black-Korean conflict / Regina Freer -- Community coalition-building / James A. Regalado -- Urban rioting in Los Angeles : a comparison of 1965 with 1992 / David O. Sears

In this Argentine case study, the author focuses on the connections between increasing urban poverty and food riots. Having described the wave of looting that occurred in Cordoba, Rosario and Buenos Aires in 1989, he analyzes the organization and targets of collective violence, noting that in contrast to similar occurrences in other Latin American cities, in this instance the poor looted shops and supermarkets in their own neighborhoods, the basic goal being the "satisfaction of immediate necessities". At the same time he stresses the point that the very existence of a slum-dwellers' protest "undermined the viability of a system based on their limitless acquiescence in deprivation". (Lat Am Persp/DÜI)

'Urban Ghetto Riots, 1965-1968: A Comparison of Soviet and American Press Coverage' by Ann K. Johnson is reviewed.

AbstractAmong the roots of the Los Angeles Riots — and the unrest they spawned in other cities — is a suburbanization process that has isolated inner‐city populations and encouraged underinvestment in urban educational and community institutions. Greater unity among metropolitan communities, and their residents, is one key to the urban future.