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The voluntary city : markets, communities and urban planning / edited by David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, Alexander Tabarrok ; foreword by Paul Johnson ; overview by Ramesh Ramanathan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi : Academic Foundation in association with Centre for Civil Society, 2006.Description: 502 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9788171885725 (hbk.)
  • 8171885721 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76 VOL 23 007475
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Contents:
Toward a rebirth of civil society / David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok -- Building the voluntary city. Laissez-faire urban planning / Stephen Davies. The private places of St. Louis : urban infrastructure through private planning / David T. Beito. The voluntary provision of public goods? : the turnpike companies of early America / Daniel Klein. Entrepreneurial city planning : Chicago's central manufacturing district / Robert C. Arne -- Law and social services in the voluntary city. Justice without government : the merchant courts of medieval Europe and their modern counterparts / Bruce L. Benson. The private provision of police during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Stephen Davies. "This enormous army" : the mutual-aid tradition of American fraternal societies before the twentieth century / David T. Beito. Medical care through mutual aid : the friendly societies of Great Britain / David G. Green. Education in the voluntary city / James Tooley -- The voluntary city and community. Proprietary communities and community associations / Fred E. Foldvary. Contractual governments in theory and practice / Donald J. Boudreaux and Randall G. Holcombe. Privatizing the neighborhood : a proposal to replace zoning with private collective property rights to existing neighborhoods / Robert H. Nelson. The case for land lease versus subdivision : homeowners' associations reconsidered / Spencer Heath MacCallum -- Epilogue. Market challenges and government failure : lessons from the voluntary city / Alexander Tabarrok.
Summary: Offers the history and analysis of large-scale, private and voluntary, community-based provision of social services, urban infrastructure and community governance to restore the vitality of city life. This book shows how such systems provide education, transportation, housing, crime control, parks and recreation, health care, employment, and more.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Toward a rebirth of civil society / David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok -- Building the voluntary city. Laissez-faire urban planning / Stephen Davies. The private places of St. Louis : urban infrastructure through private planning / David T. Beito. The voluntary provision of public goods? : the turnpike companies of early America / Daniel Klein. Entrepreneurial city planning : Chicago's central manufacturing district / Robert C. Arne -- Law and social services in the voluntary city. Justice without government : the merchant courts of medieval Europe and their modern counterparts / Bruce L. Benson. The private provision of police during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Stephen Davies. "This enormous army" : the mutual-aid tradition of American fraternal societies before the twentieth century / David T. Beito. Medical care through mutual aid : the friendly societies of Great Britain / David G. Green. Education in the voluntary city / James Tooley -- The voluntary city and community. Proprietary communities and community associations / Fred E. Foldvary. Contractual governments in theory and practice / Donald J. Boudreaux and Randall G. Holcombe. Privatizing the neighborhood : a proposal to replace zoning with private collective property rights to existing neighborhoods / Robert H. Nelson. The case for land lease versus subdivision : homeowners' associations reconsidered / Spencer Heath MacCallum -- Epilogue. Market challenges and government failure : lessons from the voluntary city / Alexander Tabarrok.

Offers the history and analysis of large-scale, private and voluntary, community-based provision of social services, urban infrastructure and community governance to restore the vitality of city life. This book shows how such systems provide education, transportation, housing, crime control, parks and recreation, health care, employment, and more.

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