Our Town: Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia
Autor David L. Kirp, John P. Dwyer, Larry A. Rosenthalen Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 1997
An account of the legal battle to open up New Jersey's suburbs to the poor, looking at the views of lawyers on both sides of the controversy. It is a case study of judicial activism and its consequences and an analysis of suburban attitudes regarding race, class and property.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780813524566
ISBN-10: 0813524563
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10: 0813524563
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
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Notă biografică
DAVID L. KIRP, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Just Schools: Race and Schooling in America, Gender Justice, and Learning by Heart: AIDS and Schoolchildren in America's Communities (Rutgers University Press), and a regular contributor to Harper's, The Nation, the Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Times.
JOHN P. DWYER , John H. Boalt professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, is a nationally recognized authority on environmental law and housing policy and law.
LARRY A. ROSENTHAL is an attorney and has served as a lecturer in the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and assistant editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
JOHN P. DWYER , John H. Boalt professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, is a nationally recognized authority on environmental law and housing policy and law.
LARRY A. ROSENTHAL is an attorney and has served as a lecturer in the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and assistant editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
1. Shades of Fear--Mount Laurel and Beyond
Part One. The Demise of a City, the Rise of a Suburb
Maps: New Jersey and Mount Laurel
2. Camden: A City Doomed by Design
3. Mount Laurel: A Suburb at Odds
Part Two: Rights, Politics, and Markets
4. Simple Justice
5. The Schoolmaster Court
6. The Politics of "No"
7. Can Bureaucrats Build Houses?
Part Three. Forbidden Neighbors in Suburbia
8. Virtual Housing
9. House of Dreams
Chronology
Notes
Sources
Index
1. Shades of Fear--Mount Laurel and Beyond
Part One. The Demise of a City, the Rise of a Suburb
Maps: New Jersey and Mount Laurel
2. Camden: A City Doomed by Design
3. Mount Laurel: A Suburb at Odds
Part Two: Rights, Politics, and Markets
4. Simple Justice
5. The Schoolmaster Court
6. The Politics of "No"
7. Can Bureaucrats Build Houses?
Part Three. Forbidden Neighbors in Suburbia
8. Virtual Housing
9. House of Dreams
Chronology
Notes
Sources
Index
Descriere
An account of the legal battle to open up New Jersey's suburbs to the poor, looking at the views of lawyers on both sides of the controversy. It is a case study of judicial activism and its consequences and an analysis of suburban attitudes regarding race, class and property.