American metropolitan areas today are divided into neighborhoods
of privilege and poverty, often along lines of ethnicity and race.
City residents traveling through these neighborhoods move from
feeling at home to feeling like tourists to feeling so out of place
they fear for their security. As Gerald Frug shows, this divided
and inhospitable urban landscape is not simply the result of
individual choices about where to live or start a business. It is
the product of government policies--and, in particular, the
policies embedded in legal rules. A Harvard law professor and
leading expert on urban affairs, Frug presents the first-ever
analysis of how legal rules shape modern cities and outlines a set
of alternatives to bring down the walls that now keep city dwellers
apart.
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 blueprint for
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.
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