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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789617103321

Autore

Frug Gerald E. <1939-2023.>

Titolo

City bound : how states stifle urban innovation / / Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2008

ISBN

0-8014-7901-0

0-8014-6008-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 260 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

BarronDavid J

Disciplina

320.8/50973

Soggetti

State-local relations - United States

Municipal home rule - United States

Municipal government - United States

Municipal corporations - United States

Urban policy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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explain that state law is often so outdated, and so rooted in an unjustified distrust of local decision making, that the legal process makes it hard for successful cities to develop and implement any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.