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Private neighborhoods and the transformation of local government
- Title
- Private neighborhoods and the transformation of local government / Robert H. Nelson.
- Author
- Nelson, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1944-
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, c2005.
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- Description
- xxiv, 469 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- View table of contents on the Internet via the World Wide Web.
- Contents
- Part I: Managing the neighborhood commons. Collective ownership of housing -- Neighborhood environmentalism -- Neighborhood association governance -- Other constitutional provisions -- Neighborhood democracy in action -- Part II: From public zoning to private neighborhood associations. The privatization of zoning -- Zoning heretics -- More zoning fictions -- Part III: Neighborhoods in political and economic thought. Neighborhoods versus the modern world -- A private neighborhood movement -- Local governments in a postmodern world -- Part IV: A policy proposal: new neighborhood associations for old neighborhoods. Creating private governments in older established neighborhoods -- Landowner associations for developing areas -- Neighborhood associations for inner-city areas -- Part V: Writing a neighborhood constitution. The neighborhood legislature -- The neighborhood executive office -- The neighborhood judicial branch -- Part VI: Neighborhood associations in American life. Freedom of neighborhood association -- A democracy of property owners -- Neighborhood secession.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-5180
- ISBN
- 0877667519 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005012225
- OCLC
- 60188404
- Author
- Nelson, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1944-
- Title
- Private neighborhoods and the transformation of local government / Robert H. Nelson.
- Imprint
- Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Additional Formats
- View table of contents on the Internet via the World Wide Web.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-5180