Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs is an annual series that serves as a forum for cutting-edge, accessible research on urban policy.    Contents for this volume include:    Editors' Summary    Looking Back to Look Forward:  Learning from Philadelphia's 350 Years of Urban Development   Joseph Gyourko (University of Pennsylvania)    Property Tax Limitations and Mobility:  Lock-in Effect of California's Proposition 13   Nada Wasi (University of California—San Diego) and Michelle J. White (Brown University)    Higher Education Appropriations and Public Universities:  Role of Medicaid and the Business Cycle   Thomas J. Kane (University of California—Los Angeles), Peter R. Orszag (Brookings Institution), and Emil Apostolov (Brookings Institution)    Effects of Urban Rail Transit Expansions:  Evidence from Sixteen Cities, 1970-2000   Nathaniel Baum-Snow (University of Chicago) and Matthew E. Kahn (Tufts University)    Migration within the United States:  Role of Race-Ethnicity   William H. Frey (University of Michigan) and Kao-Lee Liaw (McMaster University)    Growth of China's Medium-Size Cities   J. Vernon Henderson (Brown University)

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