Intergovernmental transfers and poverty alleviation 1 – 23
M G Rao, A Das-Gupta
Transportation planning and implementation in cities of the Third World: the case of Bangkok 25 – 45
A G Daniere
The implications for planning of local government reorganisation in Wales: purpose, process, and practice 47 – 66
N Harris, M Tewdwr-Jones
Horticultural change and the Horticultural Buildings and Orchard Replanting Grant Scheme in England 67 – 78
B W Ilbery, I R Bowler
City Challenge: sustainable process or temporary gesture? 79 – 95
S Davoudi, P Healey
The industrial resurgence of Southern California? Advanced ground transportation equipment manufacturing and local economic develoment 97 – 124
A J Scott, D Bergman
Review 125 – 126
An optimal grants-in-aid allocation rule in the context of an asymmetry-of-information model 127 – 140
R Levaggi
The legitimation problems of new democracies: postcommunist dilemmas in Czechoslovakia and Hungary 141 – 158
E G Frankland, R H Cox
Urban processes in the face of China's transition to a socialist market economy 159 – 177
F Wu
Two models of local development politics 179 – 194
M Baglioni, S Vicari
A consumer perspective on performance indicators: the local housing authority Reports to Tenants regimes in England and Wales 195 – 216
P Symon, R M Walker
Private sector criteria and the radical change in provision of social housing in England 217 – 252
M Pryke, C Whitehead
Conflicting objectives for rural local government: service provision to exurban communities in Israel 253 – 271
D Newman, L Applebaum
The state of metropolitan planning: decline or restructuring? 273 – 296
O Yiftachel, I Alexander
Industrial development and municipal reorganization: conflict, cooperation, and regional effects 297 – 314
E Razin, A Hazan
The regulation of restructuring: Corner Brook 1984 315 – 334
G Norcliffe
A comparison of the Reagan and Thatcher administrations' efforts to reform social security in the United States and the United Kingdom 335 – 350
A S Clark
Expenditure reassignment and fiscal decentralisation: an empirical study of state and local government in India 351 – 360
S Nath, B C Purohit
Trends in labour supply and the future of employment in China 361 – 377
J Shen, N A Spence
Urban administration in post-Soviet Russia: continuity and change in St Petersburg 379 – 393
H Hinton
Global competition, international trade, and regional concentration: the case of the German chemical industry during the 1980s 395 – 424
H Bathelt
Supporting peripheral economies or industrial policy in favour of national growth? An empirically based analysis of goal achievement of the Japanese 'Technopolis' Program 425 – 439
R Sternberg
Size of municipalities, efficiency, and citizen participation: a cross-European perspective 441 – 458
M R Martins
Policy windows and two-level games: explaining the passage of acid-rain legislation in the Clean Air Act of 1990 459 – 478
M V Simon, L R Alm
The right to die: a cross-national analysis of agenda setting and innovation 479 – 501
J D Smith, H R Glick
From urban competition to urban collaboration? The development of interurban telematics networks 503 – 524
S Graham
Reviews 525 – 530
Indexes 531 – 532
