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City Bound : How States Stifle Urban Innovation / Gerald E. Frug, David J. Barron.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780801445149
  • 9780801460081
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.8/50973 22
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. City Structures -- 1. City Structures and Urban Theory -- 2. City Structures and Local Autonomy -- Par t II. Seven Cities -- 3. Home Rule -- 4. Revenue and Expenditures -- 5. Land Use and Development -- 6. Education -- Part III. City Futures -- 7. The Global City -- 8. The Tourist City -- 9. The Middle Class City -- 10. The Regional City -- Conclusion -- Notes -- About the Authors -- Index
Summary: Many major American cities are defying the conventional wisdom that suburbs are the communities of the future. But as these urban centers prosper, they increasingly confront significant constraints. In City Bound, Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron address these limits in a new way. Based on a study of the differing legal structures of Boston, New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle, City Bound explores how state law determines what cities can and cannot do to raise revenue, control land use, and improve city schools.Frug and Barron show that state law can make it much easier for cities to pursue a global-city or a tourist-city agenda than to respond to the needs of middle-class residents or to pursue regional alliances. But they also explain that state law is often so outdated, and so rooted in an unjustified distrust of local decision making, that the legal process makes it hard for successful cities to develop and implement any coherent vision of their future. Their book calls not for local autonomy but for a new structure of state-local relations that would enable cities to take the lead in charting the future course of urban development. It should be of interest to everyone who cares about the future of American cities, whether political scientists, planners, architects, lawyers, or simply citizens.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. City Structures -- 1. City Structures and Urban Theory -- 2. City Structures and Local Autonomy -- Par t II. Seven Cities -- 3. Home Rule -- 4. Revenue and Expenditures -- 5. Land Use and Development -- 6. Education -- Part III. City Futures -- 7. The Global City -- 8. The Tourist City -- 9. The Middle Class City -- 10. The Regional City -- Conclusion -- Notes -- About the Authors -- Index

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Many major American cities are defying the conventional wisdom that suburbs are the communities of the future. But as these urban centers prosper, they increasingly confront significant constraints. In City Bound, Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron address these limits in a new way. Based on a study of the differing legal structures of Boston, New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle, City Bound explores how state law determines what cities can and cannot do to raise revenue, control land use, and improve city schools.Frug and Barron show that state law can make it much easier for cities to pursue a global-city or a tourist-city agenda than to respond to the needs of middle-class residents or to pursue regional alliances. But they also explain that state law is often so outdated, and so rooted in an unjustified distrust of local decision making, that the legal process makes it hard for successful cities to develop and implement any coherent vision of their future. Their book calls not for local autonomy but for a new structure of state-local relations that would enable cities to take the lead in charting the future course of urban development. It should be of interest to everyone who cares about the future of American cities, whether political scientists, planners, architects, lawyers, or simply citizens.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)