| Description |
ix, 256 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for City making : building communities without building walls / Gerald E. Frug. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Acknowledgments ix -- Introduction 3 -- Part One: The City As A Legal Concept 15 -- 1. City Powerlessness 17 -- 2. A Legal History of Cities 26 -- 3. Strategies for Empowering Cities 54 -- Part Two: Decentering Decentralization 71 -- 4. The Situated Subject 73 -- 5. The Postmodern Subject 92 -- Part Three: The Geography Of Community 113 -- 6. Community Building 115 -- 7. City Land Use 143 -- Part Four. City Services 165 -- 8. Alternative Conceptions of City Services 167 -- 9. Education 180 -- 10. Police 196 -- 11. Choosing City Services 208 -- Afterword 219 -- Notes 225 -- Index 247 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: City planning United States, Urban policy United States, Zoning law United States, Social classes United States, Land use, Urban United States, Community development, Urban United States, Community organization United States, United States Social conditions, United States Race relations |
| Summary |
"American metropolitan areas today are divided into neighborhoods of privilege and poverty, often along lines of ethnicity and race. As Gerald Frug shows, this divided and inhospitable urban landscape is not simply the result of individual choices about where to live or start a business. It is the product of government policies - and, in particular, the policies embedded in legal rules. Frug presents the first ever analysis of how legal rules shape modern cities and outlines a set of alternatives to bring down the walls that now keep city dwellers apart." "He describes how American law treats cities as subdivisions of states and shows how this arrangement has encouraged the separation of metropolitan residents into different, sometimes hostile groups. He explains the divisive impact of rules about zoning, redevelopment, land use, and the organization of such city services as education and policing. He pays special attention to the underlying role of anxiety about strangers, the widespread desire for good schools, and the pervasive fear of crime. Ultimately, Frug calls for replacing the current legal definition of cities with an alternative based on what he calls "community building"--An alternative that gives cities within the same metropolitan region incentives to forge closer links with each other."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
City planning -- United States.
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Urban policy -- United States.
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Zoning law -- United States.
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Social classes -- United States.
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Land use, Urban -- United States.
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Community development, Urban -- United States.
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Community organization -- United States.
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United States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140511
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United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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| LC no. |
99012209 |
| ISBN |
0691007411 cloth alkaline paper |
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