"What if any are the major urban policy differences between the main American parties both in the past and today? Evaluate their successes and failures."

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"What if any are the major urban policy differences between the main American parties both in the past and today? Evaluate their successes and failures."

The United States of America are one of the world's most urban nations. They have a strong rural sense of its own history. Inevitably, the two main American parties, Republican and Democrat, have conceived and implemented in the past and still do at present, policy frameworks that differed and differ from each others, including in urban policy. Having into account America's very specific reality, the evaluation of successes and failures of urban policy may not necessarily show a scenario where differences due to style and philosophy of government are clearly perceptible.

In its form and structure, the American city was born in the 19th century, which was a century of dramatic transformations on practically every front.1

America was essentially a rural nation and there were no national policies in order to upgrade the quality of life in the cities. It was not until the end of the 19th century that political scientists, social workers, landscape architects, and engineers started to classify and analyse the problems of the city and lay