
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Constitutional Revolution
Part I: Managing the Neighborhood Commons
1 Collective Ownership of Housing
2 Neighborhood Environmentalism
3 Neighborhood Association Governance
4 Other Constitutional Provisions
5 Neighborhood Democracy in Action
Part II: From Public Zoning to Private Neighborhood Associations
6 The Privatization of Zoning
7 Zoning Heretics
8 More Zoning Fictions
Part III: Neighborhoods in Political and Economic Thought
9 Neighborhoods versus the Modern World
10 A Private Neighborhood Movement
11 Local Governments in a Postmodern World
Part IV: A Policy Proposal: New Neighborhood Associations for Old Neighborhoods
12 Creating Private Governments in Older Established Neighborhoods
13 Landowner Associations for Developing Areas
14 Neighborhood Associations for Inner-City Areas
Part V: Writing a Neighborhood Constitution
15 The Neighborhood Legislature
16 The Neighborhood Executive Office
17 The Neighborhood Judicial Branch
Part VI: Neighborhood Associations in American Life
18 Freedom of Neighborhood Association
19 A Democracy of Property Owners
20 Neighborhood Secession
Conclusion
About the Author
Index
Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government, by Robert H. Nelson, is available from the Urban Institute Press (paper, 6" x 9", 494 pages, ISBN 978-0-87766-751-3, $32.50).