The Second Edition of Local Government Law, like the first edition, is designed to connect the subject of local government law with current debates about the possibility and wisdom of decentralization of power. 
Now, 32 new cases (23 of which were decided in the 1990's) and 21 new excerpts from books to articles (16 of which were written since the publication of the first edition) transform the casebook into a teaching vehicle for the mid-90's. Moreover, the second addition adds significant new materials on issues of contemporary interest, particularly those dealing with city-suburb conflict and privatization. 
Despite the addition of these extensive new materials, the second edition of Frug's Local Government Law will be shorter than the first edition and, therefore, easier to use in a one-semester course. This condensation of the casebook was made possible by a careful re-editing of every case and article retained from the first edition, together with a policy of ensuring that newly added materials substitute for, and not simply enlarge, the preexisting cases and commentary. 
Those who have used Frug's first edition will find the organization of the book familiar and the scope of the issues enhanced by the addition of the new materials.

Local Government Law (American Casebook Series)

Frug, Gerald E.

Administrative Law

West Group

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Local Government Law (3rd Edition) (American Casebook Series)

Barron, David J.

Ford, Richard T.

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Local government law (American casebook series)

West

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.

City Making

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Princeton University Press

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.

City Making: Building Communities without Building Walls

City Bound: How States Stifle Urban Innovation

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.

Cornell University Press

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Local Government Law (American Casebook Series)

Local Government Law (3rd Edition) (American Casebook Series)

Local government law (American casebook series)

City Making

City Making: Building Communities without Building Walls

City Bound: How States Stifle Urban Innovation

City Bound: How States Stifle Urban Innovation