The Urban Origins Of Suburban Autonomy
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The Urban Origins Of Suburban Autonomy
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Author : Richardson Dilworth
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2005-02-28
The Urban Origins Of Suburban Autonomy written by Richardson Dilworth and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-28 with Political Science categories.
Using the urbanized area that spreads across northern New Jersey and around New York City as a case study, this book presents a convincing explanation of metropolitan fragmentation—the process by which suburban communities remain as is or break off and form separate political entities. The process has important and deleterious consequences for a range of urban issues, including the weakening of public finance and school integration. The explanation centers on the independent effect of urban infrastructure, specifically sewers, roads, waterworks, gas, and electricity networks. The book argues that the development of such infrastructure in the late nineteenth century not only permitted cities to expand by annexing adjacent municipalities, but also further enhanced the ability of these suburban entities to remain or break away and form independent municipalities. The process was crucial in creating a proliferation of municipalities within metropolitan regions. The book thus shows that the roots of the urban crisis can be found in the interplay between technology, politics, and public works in the American city.
The Urban Origins Of Suburban Autonomy
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Author : Richardson Dilworth
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2005-02-28
The Urban Origins Of Suburban Autonomy written by Richardson Dilworth and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-28 with Business & Economics categories.
Using the urbanized area that spreads across northern New Jersey and around New York City as a case study, this book presents a convincing explanation of metropolitan fragmentation—the process by which suburban communities remain as is or break off and form separate political entities. The process has important and deleterious consequences for a range of urban issues, including the weakening of public finance and school integration. The explanation centers on the independent effect of urban infrastructure, specifically sewers, roads, waterworks, gas, and electricity networks. The book argues that the development of such infrastructure in the late nineteenth century not only permitted cities to expand by annexing adjacent municipalities, but also further enhanced the ability of these suburban entities to remain or break away and form independent municipalities. The process was crucial in creating a proliferation of municipalities within metropolitan regions. The book thus shows that the roots of the urban crisis can be found in the interplay between technology, politics, and public works in the American city.
The City In American Political Development
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Author : Richardson Dilworth
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2009
The City In American Political Development written by Richardson Dilworth and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Political Science categories.
The volume brings together some of the best of both the most established and the newest urban scholars in political science, sociology, and history, each of whom makes a new argument for rethinking the relationship between cities and the larger project of state-building.
Cities In American Political History
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Author : Richard Dilworth
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2011-09-13
Cities In American Political History written by Richard Dilworth and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-13 with Political Science categories.
Profiling the ten most populous cities in the United States during ten critical eras of political development, Cities in American Political History presents a unique singular focus on American cities, their government and politics, industry, commerce, labor, and race and ethnicity. Cities in American Political History analyzes the role that large cities from New York to Chicago to San Jose, have played in U.S. politics and policymaking. Each entry is structured for straightforward comparison across issues and eras. The city profiles include basic data and statistics for the era and are accompanied by maps of each era and the largest cities at that time.
Social Capital In The City
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Author : Richardson Dilworth
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2010-06-04
Social Capital In The City written by Richardson Dilworth and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-04 with Political Science categories.
The first interdisciplinary work to examine "social capital" in a single city.
Demolition Means Progress
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Author : Andrew R. Highsmith
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-12-30
Demolition Means Progress written by Andrew R. Highsmith and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-30 with History categories.
Flint, Michigan, is widely seen as Detroit s Detroit: the perfect embodiment of a ruined industrial economy and a shattered American dream. In this deeply researched book, Andrew Highsmith gives us the first full-scale history of Flint, showing that the Vehicle City has always seen demolition as a tool of progress. During the 1930s, officials hoped to renew the city by remaking its public schools into racially segregated community centers. After the war, federal officials and developers sought to strengthen the region by building subdivisions in Flint s segregated suburbs, while GM executives and municipal officials demolished urban factories and rebuilt them outside the city. City leaders later launched a plan to replace black neighborhoods with a freeway and new factories. Each of these campaigns, Highsmith argues, yielded an ever more impoverished city and a more racially divided metropolis. By intertwining histories of racial segregation, mass suburbanization, and industrial decline, Highsmith gives us a deeply unsettling look at urban-industrial America."
Encyclopedia Of U S Political History
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language : en
Publisher: SAGE
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Encyclopedia Of U S Political History written by and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Cities And Suburbs
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Author : Bernadette Hanlon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-12-04
Cities And Suburbs written by Bernadette Hanlon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-04 with Political Science categories.
This book examines the changing nature of metropolitan areas through a comprehensive analysis of the historical, demographic, geographic, economic, and political issues facing the US in the twenty-first century.
Encyclopedia Of U S Political History
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Author : Andrew Robertson
language : en
Publisher: CQ Press
Release Date : 2010-04-01
Encyclopedia Of U S Political History written by Andrew Robertson and has been published by CQ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Political Science categories.
Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History explores the events, policies, activities, institutions, groups, people, and movements that have created and shaped political life in the United States. With contributions from scholars in the fields of history and political science, this seven-volume set provides students, researchers, and scholars the opportunity to examine the political evolution of the United States from the 1500s to the present day. With greater coverage than any other resource, the Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History identifies and illuminates patterns and interrelations that will expand the reader’s understanding of American political institutions, culture, behavior, and change. Focusing on both government and history, the Encyclopedia brings exceptional breadth and depth to the topic with more than 100 essays for each of the critical time periods covered.
The Fixers
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Author : Julia Rabig
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-09-28
The Fixers written by Julia Rabig and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-28 with History categories.
Stories of Newark’s postwar decline are easy to find. But in The Fixers, Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city’s decline mounted by Newark’s residents and suburban neighbors. In these pages, we meet the black nationalists whose dynamic organizing elected African American candidates in unprecedented numbers. There are tenants who mounted a historic rent strike to transform public housing and renegade white Catholic priests who joined black laywomen to pioneer the construction of low-income housing and influence housing policy. These are just a few of the “fixers” we meet—people who devised ways to work with limited resources and pull together the threads of a patchwork welfare state. Rabig argues that fixers play dual roles. They support resistance, but also mediation; they fight for reform, but also more radical and far-reaching alternatives; they rally others to a collective cause, but sometimes they broker factions. Fixers reflect longer traditions of organizing while responding to the demands of their times. In so doing, they end up fixing (like a fixative) a new and enduring pattern of activist strategies, reforms, and institutional expectations—a pattern we continue to see today.