| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The City as a Legal Concept. 1. City Powerlessness. 2. A Legal History of Cities. 3. Strategies for Empowering Cities -- pt. 2. Decentering Decentralization. 4. The Situated Subject. 5. The Postmodern Subject -- pt. 3. The Geography of Community. 6. Community Building. 7. City Land Use -- pt. 4. City Services. 8. Alternative Conceptions of City Services. 9. Education. 10. Police. 11. Choosing City Services |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index |
| Notes |
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Print version record |
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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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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
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City planning
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Community development, Urban
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Community organization
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Land use, Urban
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Race relations
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Social classes
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Social conditions
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Urban policy
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Zoning law
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Stadtplanung
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Steden.
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Lokaal bestuur.
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Sociale ongelijkheid.
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Stadsplanning.
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Classes sociales -- États-Unis.
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Sol, Utilisation urbaine du -- États-Unis.
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Développement communautaire urbain -- États-Unis.
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Organisation communautaire -- États-Unis.
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Urbanisme -- États-Unis.
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Politique urbaine -- États-Unis.
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Zonage -- Etats-Unis.
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| SUBJECT |
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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United States
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USA
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États-Unis -- Conditions sociales -- 1945- ...
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États-Unis -- Relations interethniques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400823345 |
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140082334X |
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1400811686 |
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9781400811687 |
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9786612753909 |
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6612753900 |
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1282753908 |
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9781282753907 |
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