American communities are facing chronic problems: fiscal stress,
urban decline, environmental sprawl, mass incarceration, political
isolation, disproportionate foreclosures and severe public health
risks. In The Price of Paradise, David Troutt argues that it is a
lack of mutuality in our local decision making that has led to this
looming crisis facing cities and local governments. Arguing that
there are structural flaws in the American dream, Troutt
investigates the role that place plays in our thinking and how we
have organized our communities to create or deny opportunity. Legal
rules and policies that promoted mobility for most citizens
simultaneously stifled and segregated a growing minority by race,
class and-most importantly-place. A conversation about America at
the crossroads, The Price of Paradise is a multilayered exploration
of the legal, economic and cultural forces that contribute to the
squeeze on the middle class, the hidden dangers of growing income
and wealth inequality and the literature on how growth and
consumption patterns are environmentally unsustainable.
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