Richard Schragger (University of Virginia School of Law) has posted The Nature of Cities (NYU Environmental Law Journal) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This comment on Katrina Wyman and Danielle Spiegel-Feld’s new book, Local Greens: Cities and Twenty-first Century Environmental Problems, argues that cities are a cause of and solution to many environmental problems, that skepticism of cities’ relative efficacy in the area of environmental regulation is mostly a function of them being constrained by an institutional structure that privileges state and federal power over local power, and that cities possess the appropriate incentives and capacity to address even those environmental problems that are global in scale. On these scores, I agree wholeheartedly with Wyman and Spiegel-Feld, whose book is an excellent study of New York City environmentalism. Indeed, I am even more bullish about the city’s capabilities, even as I argue that hostility to municipal power is a significant impediment.
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