Making sense of the city : local government, civic culture, and community life in urban America /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Fairbanks, Robert B. (Robert Bruce), 1950-, Mooney-Melvin, Patricia, Miller, Zane L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2001.
Series:Urban life and urban landscape series.
Subjects:
Miller, Zane L.
Cities and towns > United States > History.
Municipal government > United States > History.
City planning > United States > History.
Villes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Administration municipale > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Cities and towns.
City planning.
Municipal government.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Reconstituting city government : midcentury state constitution making, defining the municipal corporation, and the public welfare / Judith Spraul-Schmidt
  • The medieval image in the modern mind : history, democracy, and turn-of-the-century American municipal governance / Alan I Marcus
  • Advocating city planning in the public schools : the Chicago and Dallas experiences, 1911-1928 / Robert B. Fairbanks
  • The boss becomes a manager : executive authority and city charter reform, 1880-1929 / Robert A. Burnham
  • Before the neighborhood organization revolution : Cincinnati's neighborhood improvement associations, 1890-1940 / Patricia Mooney-Melvin
  • Playing with democracy : municipal recreation, community organizing, and citizenship / Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh
  • Making history : the search for civic and cultural identity in an American new town, 1940-1980 / Bradley D. Cross
  • Giving meaning to democracy : the development of the fair housing movement in Cincinnati, 1945-1970 / Charles F. Casey-Leininger.

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