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Locked In and Locked Out The Impact of Urban Land Use Policy and Market Forces on African Americans

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Benjamin F. Bobo

Book Code: C6754

ISBN: 0-275-96754-9

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96754-3

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168 pages, charts, figures, tables

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 9/30/2001

List Price: $102.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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...appropriate for comprehensive collections, particularly those supporting urban and African American studies.
—Choice June 2002

Description: African Americans have suffered intensely at the hands of America's dominant group, but the roles played by urban planning, land use policy, and the free market are not well known. Presenting a new conceptual approach, this book considers their locking effect on African Americans, showing, for instance, that one-acre zoning and similar policies in upscale neighborhoods lock African Americans out while market mechanisms in decaying neighborhoods lock them in. Arguing that the locking effect leads to the disenfranchisement of African Americans, Bobo shows how wealth is channeled to the dominant group and African Americans' life choices are denuded, creating a volatile situation. Although classical economic theory holds that a free market allocates scarce resources in the best interest of society, in reality market mechanisms do not work to the advantage of African Americans. Nor does public regulation of land use operate in their interest, although public policy is presumed to produce equitable and favorable outcomes for all members of society. This book explores how a combination of government regulation of land use and free market forces have created the locking effect, which has cultivated and sustained a process of disenfranchisement of African Americans.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction: The Road to Conflict
Market Zoning: The Free Market and the Locking Effect
Public Zoning: Exacerbating the Locking Effect
Lot Size and the Locking Effect: Empirical Evidence
Lender Apathy: De Facto Land Use Control
Rent Control: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
By-Products of Land Use Control: The Long Arm of the Locking Effect
Financial Implication of the Locking Effect
Disenfranchized and Grieving: The Precipitating Event
Epilogue
Bibliography

LC Card Number: 00-069275

LCC Class: HT123

Dewey Class: 333


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