RIOT AND REASON - CRAFTING AN URBAN-POLICY RESPONSE

This article examines the federal policy response to urban problems in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riot. Although the federal government failed to enact a long-term urban aid initiative in 1992, a number of locally based comprehensive urban initiatives were 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, and ultimately will depend on significant restructuring of fiscal federalism relationships among and between the federal, state, and local governments.