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City Making � Building Communities Without Building Walls Paperback - 2001
by Gerald E. Frug
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- Title City Making � Building Communities Without Building Walls
- Author Gerald E. Frug
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton Univ Pr
- Date 2001
- Bookseller's Inventory # __069100742X
- ISBN 9780691007427 / 069100742X
- Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.14 x 0.65 in (23.37 x 15.60 x 1.65 cm)
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Social conditions, United States - Race relations
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99012209
- Dewey Decimal Code 307.121
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Frug begins by describing how American law treats cities as subdivisions of states and shows how this arrangement has encouraged the separation of metropolitan residents into different, sometimes hostile groups. He explains in clear, accessible language the divisive impact of rules about zoning, redevelopment, land use, and the organization of such city services as education and policing. He pays special attention to the underlying role of anxiety about strangers, the widespread desire for good schools, and the pervasive fear of crime. Ultimately, Frug calls for replacing the current legal definition of cities with an alternative based on what he calls "community building" -- an alternative that gives cities within the same metropolitan region incentives to forge closer links with each other.
An incisive study of the legal roots of today's urban problems, City Making is also an optimistic and compelling blueprintfor enabling American cities once again to embrace their historic role of helping people reach an accommodation with those who live in the same geographic area, no matter how dissimilar they are.