Question of Intent

The Politics of Exclusion By Michael N. Danielson Columbia University Press, 635 pp., $17.50 hardcover; $6.95 paper

This carefully researched and cleanly written book tells its readers both more and less than they might reasonably want to know about suburban zoning and the bickering it causes. We get a surfeit of information about the legal details of schemes to put apartment houses or smaller homes in legal subdivisions whose residents, by and large, didn’t want them. We get very few arguments explaining why such schemes are good, if indeed they are; or why that truth should be self-evident.

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Roger Starr

The Politics of Exclusion By Michael N. Danielson Columbia University Press, 635 pp., $17.50 hardcover; $6.95 paper

This carefully researched and cleanly written book tells its readers both more and less than they might reasonably want to know about suburban zoning and the bickering it causes. We get a surfeit of information about the legal details of schemes to put apartment houses or smaller homes in legal subdivisions whose residents, by and large, didn’t want them. We get very few arguments explaining why such schemes are good, if indeed they are; or why that truth should be self-evident.