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

Main entry:

Frug, Gerald E., 1939-2023, author. aut

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2008.

Description:

xvii, 260 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index.
City structures and urban theory -- City structures and local autonomy -- Home rule -- Revenue and expenditures -- Land use and development -- Education -- The global city -- The tourist city -- The middle class city -- The regional city.

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 But they also explain that state law is often so outdated, and so rooted in an unjustified distrust of local decision making, that the legal process makes it hard for successful cities to develop and implement any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

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0801445140 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780801445149 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

State-local relations United States.
Municipal home rule United States.
Municipal government United States.
Municipal corporations United States.
Urban policy United States.
Relations États fédérés-municipalités États-Unis.
Autonomie locale États-Unis.
Administration municipale États-Unis.
Politique urbaine États-Unis.
Municipal corporations.
Municipal government.
Municipal home rule.
State-local relations.
Urban policy.
Stadtentwicklung
Kommunalplanung
Urban politik Förenta staterna.
Stadsplanering Förenta staterna.
United States.
USA.

Form/genre:

Internet resources.

Added entries:

Barron, David J., author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269629
Call No.: BIB 201884
Status: Available

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