14074. "EQUALITY AND URBAN POLICY" BY ROBERT L. LINEBERRY. This book review provides a summary and analysis of Lineberry’s (1977) empirical investigation of discrimination and inequality in the allocation and distribution of municipal services. The paper describes the scope of Lineberry’s investigation (which uses the city of San Antonio as a case example), outlining his five hypotheses (three of which are variants of the underclass hypothesis), and discussion the results and conclusions of his investigation. KEYWORDS: book review nonfiction urban studies underclass municipal services inequality discrimination. APA Style. 5 pages, 16 footnotes in text, 1 bibliographic source.