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Suburbs under Siege: Race, Space, and Audacious Judges
Charles M. Haar
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Description for Suburbs under Siege: Race, Space, and Audacious Judges
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 282 pages, 27 halftones 6 line drawings 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JKSB; LNDC; LNDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
In Suburbs under Siege Charles Haar argues passionately that all people--rich or poor, black or white--have a constitutional right to live in the suburbs and that a socially responsible judiciary should vigorously uphold that right. For various reasons, American courts have generally failed to question local zoning regulations that trap the urban poor in the squalor of inner cities, away from decent housing and jobs in the suburbs. No U.S. Supreme Court case, for instance, has confronted exclusionary zoning rules, as Brown v. Board of Education once attacked school segregation. Instead, judges at all levels have most often reinforced the ... Read more
In Suburbs under Siege Charles Haar argues passionately that all people--rich or poor, black or white--have a constitutional right to live in the suburbs and that a socially responsible judiciary should vigorously uphold that right. For various reasons, American courts have generally failed to question local zoning regulations that trap the urban poor in the squalor of inner cities, away from decent housing and jobs in the suburbs. No U.S. Supreme Court case, for instance, has confronted exclusionary zoning rules, as Brown v. Board of Education once attacked school segregation. Instead, judges at all levels have most often reinforced the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691634548
SKU
V9780691634548
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Reviews for Suburbs under Siege: Race, Space, and Audacious Judges
Named an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America for 1998 "Suburbs under Siege ... is both a worthy addition to the fair housing literature and a valuable study of a state supreme court."
Charles M. Lamb, The Law and Politics Book Review
Charles M. Lamb, The Law and Politics Book Review