Our Town

Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

AvDavid L. Kirp,John P. Dwyer,Larry A. Rosenthal

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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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Utgivningsdatum1997-08-01
Mått152 x 229 x 36 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagRutgers University Press
ISBN9780813524566

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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.

Acknowledgments1. Shades of Fear--Mount Laurel and BeyondPart One. The Demise of a City, the Rise of a SuburbMaps: New Jersey and Mount Laurel2. Camden: A City Doomed by Design3. Mount Laurel: A Suburb at OddsPart Two: Rights, Politics, and Markets4. Simple Justice5. The Schoolmaster Court6. The Politics of "No"7. Can Bureaucrats Build Houses?Part Three. Forbidden Neighbors in Suburbia8. Virtual Housing9. House of DreamsChronologyNotesSourcesIndex