Cities by Contract: The Politics of Municipal Incorporation

by Gary J. Miller

The battle line in the urban conflict lies between the central city and the affluent suburb. The city, needing to broaden its tax base in order to provide increasingly necessary social services, has sought to annex the suburb. The latter, in order to hold down property taxes, has sought independence through incorporation. Cities by Contractdocuments and dissects this process through case studies of communities located in Los Angeles County. The book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262131641
• ISBN13: 9780262131643
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"