Article:
Robert L. Lineberry, Mandating Urban Equality: The Distribution of Municipal Public Services, 53 TEXAS L. REV. 26 (1974).
 

Abstract:
It appears that urban citizens do not share equally in the distribution of municipal public services, e.g., police and fire protection, parks, libraries, sanitation, public health, sewerage, etc. While this disparate delivery of municipal public services raises common law and constitutional issues of equality, Professor Lineberry suggests limitations on the concept of equality as a standard for measuring service distribution, and ultimately concludes that policymakers should abandon the quest for equality and instead implement the distribution of public goods based on a “rationality standard.” This standard would provide a more goal-oriented decisional principle for the distribution of municipal public services.