Making sense of the city : local government, civic culture, and community life in urban America / edited by Robert B. Fairbanks and Patricia Mooney-Melvin.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2001], ©2001.
Description
xi, 192 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Urban life and urban landscape series. [More in this series]
    Summary note
    • "Making Sense of the City explores the ways in which urbanites have attempted to confront the challenges of urban life during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the spirit of Zane L. Miller, whom this volume honors, the nine contributors focus closely on the words and actions of individuals, institutions, and organizations who participated in the public discourse about what the city was or could be.
    • Through an examination of such topics as city charters, city planning texts, neighborhood organizations, municipal recreation programs, urban government reforms, urban identity, and fair housing campaigns, the authors offer insight into the process through which ideas about the nature of the city have affected action in the urban environment."--BOOK JACKET.
    Notes
    Festschrift in honor of Zane L. Miller.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Robert B. Fairbanks and Patricia Mooney-Melvin
    • Ch. 1. Reconstituting City Government: Midcentury State Constitution Making, Defining the Municipal Corporation, and the Public Welfare / Judith Spraul-Schmidt
    • Ch. 2. The Medieval Image in the Mind: History, Democracy, and Turn-of-the-Century American Municipal Governance / Alan I. Marcus
    • Ch. 3. Advocating City Planning in the Public Schools: The Chicago and Dallas Experiences, 1911-1928 / Robert B. Fairbanks
    • Ch. 4. The Boss Becomes a Manager: Executive Authority and City Charter Reform, 1880-1929 / Robert A. Burnham
    • Ch. 5. Before the Neighborhood Organization Revolution: Cincinnati's Neighborhood Improvement Associations, 1890-1940 / Patricia Mooney-Melvin
    • Ch. 6. Playing with Democracy: Municipal Recreation, Community Organizing, and Citizenship / Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh
    • Ch. 7. Making History: The Search for Civic and Cultural Identity in an American New Town, 1940-1980 / Bradley D. Cross --
    • Ch. 8. Giving Meaning to Democracy: The Development of the Fair Housing Movement in Cincinnati, 1945-1970 / Charles F. Casey-Leininger
    • Postscript: The Queen City and Its Historian / Roger W. Lotchin.
    ISBN
    0814208819
    LCCN
    2001002155
    OCLC
    46777382
    RCP
    C - O
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