Municipal Boundary Battles
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Municipal Boundary Battles
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Author : Sandeep Agrawal
language : en
Publisher: University of Alberta
Release Date : 2024-07-18
Municipal Boundary Battles written by Sandeep Agrawal and has been published by University of Alberta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-18 with Political Science categories.
Municipal Boundary Battles explores the motivations, land use effects, and financial implications of municipal boundary adjustments across Canada, focusing mainly on annexations and amalgamations—the most frequent means to adjust boundaries and reform local governments in this country. With a focus on mid-size cities and small towns rather than major Canadian metropolitan areas, the authors uncover hidden motivations, untangle behind-the-scenes political machinations, and document the resulting conflict. Through empirical evidence, case studies, and examples, the collection helps develop generalizations and inform best practices for municipal boundary adjustments and reform. The contributors explain how the esoteric aspects of adjustments work in more practical applications, offering political scientists, geographers, municipal officials, and planning practitioners fresh perspectives that contradict much of the prevailing understanding of boundary adjustments. Contributors: Sandeep Agrawal, Cody Gretzinger, John Heseltine, John Meligrana, Jordan Rea, Amrita Singh, Jon Taylor, Zack Taylor. Afterword by Andrew Sancton.
The Battles Of St Albans
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Author : Peter Burley
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2013-09-09
The Battles Of St Albans written by Peter Burley and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-09 with History categories.
St Albans is unique in having been the site of two pivotal battles during the Wars of the Roses, yet this is the first book-length account to have been published. It offers a gripping account of the fighting, and of the politics and intrigue that led to it, and it incorporates the results of the latest research. The authors also plot the events of over 500 years ago onto the twenty-first century landscape of St Albans so that the visitor can retrace the course of each battle on the present-day ground.
Hell S Kitchen And The Battle For Urban Space
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Author : Joseph J. Varga
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2013-05-01
Hell S Kitchen And The Battle For Urban Space written by Joseph J. Varga and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-01 with Political Science categories.
Hell’s Kitchen is among Manhattan’s most storied and studied neighborhoods. A working-class district situated next to the West Side’s middle- and upper-class residential districts, it has long attracted the focus of artists and urban planners, writers and reformers. Now, Joseph Varga takes us on a tour of Hell’s Kitchen with an eye toward what we usually take for granted: space, and, particularly, how urban spaces are produced, controlled, and contested by different class and political forces. Varga examines events and locations in a crucial period in the formation of the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, the Progressive Era, and describes how reformers sought to shape the behavior and experiences of its inhabitants by manipulating the built environment. But those inhabitants had plans of their own, and thus ensued a struggle over the very spaces—public and private, commercial and personal—in which they lived. Varga insightfully considers the interactions between human actors, the built environment, and the natural landscape, and suggests how the production of and struggle over space influence what we think and how we live. In the process, he raises incisive questions about the meaning of community, citizenship, and democracy itself.
The Political Battle Over Congressional Redistricting
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Author : William J. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2013-06-07
The Political Battle Over Congressional Redistricting written by William J. Miller and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-07 with Political Science categories.
John Engler, former Governor of Michigan, once claimed that redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take. Academicians and political leaders alike, however, have regularly debated the ideal way by to redistrict national and state legislatures. Rather than being the pure process that Governor Engler envisioned, redistricting has led to repeated court battles waged on such traditional democratic values as one person, one vote, and minority rights. Instead of being an opportunity to help ensure maximum representation for the citizens, the process has become a cat and mouse game in many states with citizen representation seemingly the farthest idea from anyone’s mind. From a purely political perspective, those in power in the state legislature at the time of redistricting largely act like they have unilateral authority to do as they please. In this volume, contributors discuss why such an assumption is concerning in the modern political environment.
The Battle That Forged Modern Baseball
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Author : Daniel R. Levitt
language : en
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Release Date : 2012-03-09
The Battle That Forged Modern Baseball written by Daniel R. Levitt and has been published by Ivan R. Dee this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-09 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In late 1913 the newly formed Federal League declared itself a major league in competition with the established National and American Leagues. Backed by some of America’s wealthiest merchants and industrialists, the new organization posed a real challenge to baseball’s prevailing structure. For the next two years the well-established leagues fought back furiously in the press, in the courts, and on the field. The story of this fascinating and complex historical battle centers on the machinations of both the owners and the players, as the Federals struggled for profits and status, and players organized baseball’s first real union. Award winning author, Daniel R. Levitt gives us the most authoritative account yet published of the short-lived Federal League, the last professional baseball league to challenge the National League and American League monopoly.
Redrawing Local Government Boundaries
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Author : John Meligrana
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2004
Redrawing Local Government Boundaries written by John Meligrana and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Local governments today are under extreme pressure to undertake boundary reform. The global trend toward urbanization has brought with it economic, environmental, social, and regional demands that have severe implications for local governments and their territories. As a result, changing the areal jurisdiction of this most basic level of government has become a persistent and pressing challenge around the globe. This collection examines the legal and regulatory procedures involved in such municipal restructuring. Case studies from eight nations - the United States, Canada, Spain, Germany, Israel, Korea, China, and South Africa - investigate how and why local governments have been enlarged in scope and reduced in number within each country. Four key aspects are examined: the geography of the local government boundary problem, the procedures associated with boundary reform, the roles of institutions and actors in boundary reform, and the implications for urban and regional governance. Redrawing Local Government Boundaries offers a broad theoretical understanding of local government boundary reform and informs the wider scholarly discussion about institutional change, state structures, and the areal jurisdiction of local governments. The first international comparative study of local boundary reform, it will be a valuable reference for scholars and students of political science, public administration, geography, urban studies, and urban planning.
History Of Battle Abbey
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Author : Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Duchess of Cleveland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
History Of Battle Abbey written by Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Duchess of Cleveland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Abbeys categories.
Decentralized Authoritarianism In China
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Author : Pierre F. Landry
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-16
Decentralized Authoritarianism In China written by Pierre F. Landry and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-16 with Political Science categories.
China, like many authoritarian regimes, struggles with the tension between the need to foster economic development by empowering local officials and the regime's imperative to control them politically. Landry explores how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) manages local officials in order to meet these goals and perpetuate an unusually decentralized authoritarian regime. Using unique data collected at the municipal, county, and village level, Landry examines in detail how the promotion mechanisms for local cadres have allowed the CCP to reward officials for the development of their localities without weakening political control. His research shows that the CCP's personnel management system is a key factor in explaining China's enduring authoritarianism and proves convincingly that decentralization and authoritarianism can work hand in hand.
Municipal Identity As Property
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Author : Christopher J. Tyson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Municipal Identity As Property written by Christopher J. Tyson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Detroit is bankrupt. Very little of the theorizing and editorializing about this watershed event has considered municipal boundary law as a contributing factor. To the extent that it has, the analysis fails to grasp how essential municipal boundaries are to the creation of locational value in the metropolis. It has been twenty years since Richard Briffault, Gerald Frug and Richard Ford released their path-breaking scholarship on the municipal boundary problem, yet metropolitan regions continue to fragment in much the same way Detroit did over the past two generations. This raises familiar questions about the meaning and function of municipal boundaries and how local government law should respond. Of the many currents operating within the anti-annexation and “cityhood” movements at the center of the contemporary metropolitan boundary problem is the reality that the politics around location (specifically suburban location) in metropolitan areas are understood, expressed and defended by laymen and courts alike in the rhetoric and logic of property rights. The relationship between private property rights and the perceived right to autonomous local government has taken on popular meanings that, while not always grounded in actual law, do have a real impact on politics. That perceived entitlement forms the ideological basis for what is essentially a socially constructed property right in municipal identity. Municipal identity as property is largely a reflection of the high stakes nature of contemporary suburban identity. Suburban residents feel particularly threatened by the prospect of being swallowed up by their metropolitan area central city, or, even worse, ending up in an unincorporated, undervalued location. The extent to which residing in a particular municipality is understood as highly consequential for wealth building, quality of life, family security and status is a key feature of the contemporary suburban identity and experience. Battles over municipal boundaries reveal the ways in which suburban residents express what amounts to a deeply-felt entitlement to separate government. While notions of municipal identity as property are primarily a result of the cumulative social and economic developments of the twentieth century, the courts have played a role as well. Legal rhetoric and legal reasoning are essential components of the property rights expectations that municipal identity fosters. This article explores how municipal boundary law, social developments and jurisprudence have bolstered a perceived property right in municipal identity and its role in shaping the modern metropolis.
The Routledge Atlas Of The Holocaust
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Author : Martin Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009
The Routledge Atlas Of The Holocaust written by Martin Gilbert and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Contains 333 maps tracing each phrase of the Holocaust in chronological order.