Contractual Communities in the Self-Organising City

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<p>Both land-use regulation and territorial collective services have traditionally been accomplished in cities through coercive efforts of public administrations. Recently, land-use regulation and collective service provision regimes have emerged within contractual communities: territory-based organisations (usually, but not exclusively residential) such as homeowners associations.</p><p>This book examines the problems and opportunities of contractual communities, avoiding both the alarmism and unwarranted apologies found in much of the literature on contractual communities.</p><p>The central notion is that cases in which coercive action by a public agency was deemed indispensable have been unjustly overstated, while the potential benefits of voluntary self-organising processes have been seriously understated. The authors propose a revised notion of the state role that allows ample leeway for contractual communities of all forms.</p><p>

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