Our Town

DAVID L. KIRP, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Just Schools: Race and Schooling in America, Gender Justice, and Learning by Heart: AIDS and Schoolchildren in America's Communities (Rutgers University Press), and a regular contributor to Harper's, The Nation, the Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Times.JOHN P. DWYER , John H. Boalt professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, is a nationally recognized authority on environmental law and housing policy and law.LARRY A. ROSENTHAL is an attorney and has served as a lecturer in the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and assistant editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

• Acknowledgments1. Shades of Fear--Mount Laurel and BeyondPart One. The Demise of a City, the Rise of a SuburbMaps: New Jersey and Mount Laurel2. Camden: A City Doomed by Design3. Mount Laurel: A Suburb at OddsPart Two: Rights, Politics, and Markets4. Simple Justice5. The Schoolmaster Court6. The Politics of "No"7. Can Bureaucrats Build Houses?Part Three. Forbidden Neighbors in Suburbia8. Virtual Housing9. House of DreamsChronologyNotesSourcesIndex