The Voluntary City

The Voluntary City

The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society is an Independent Institute-published book, edited by David T. Beito, about communities with private provision of municipal services. [ [http://www.independent.org/store/book_detail.asp?bookID=17 The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society ] ] Contributors include Stephen Davies, Daniel Klein, Robert C. Arne, Bruce L. Benson, David G. Green, James Tooley, Fred E. Foldvary, Donald J. Boudreaux, Randall G. Holcombe, Robert H. Nelson, Spencer H. MacCallum, and Alexander Tabarrok. It covers the topics of privatized provision of urban infrastructure, roads, planning, police, charity, medical care, education, and commercial regulation. Some criticisms of the book are that it does not adequately address situations such as the accident at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, where private sector managers failed to install fire suppression equipment or leave the egresses unlocked, causing the death of many employees; or the repressive nature of some private communities, including Pullman, Illinois. [ [http://www.newcolonist.com/br-voluntary.html Book Review: The Voluntary City ] ] However, the book has also been praised for its bibliography, which has many useful resources on privatization. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/3217504] Among the examples the book gives of private communities are the private places of St. Louis and the Central Manufacturing District of Chicago.

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*Voluntary community

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