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.

Acknowledgments
1. Shades of Fear--Mount Laurel and Beyond
Part One. The Demise of a City, the Rise of a Suburb
Maps: New Jersey and Mount Laurel
2. Camden: A City Doomed by Design
3. Mount Laurel: A Suburb at Odds
Part Two: Rights, Politics, and Markets
4. Simple Justice
5. The Schoolmaster Court
6. The Politics of "No"
7. Can Bureaucrats Build Houses?
Part Three. Forbidden Neighbors in Suburbia
8. Virtual Housing
9. House of Dreams
Chronology
Notes
Sources
Index