Decentralizing the City: a Study of Boston's Little City Halls


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...Evaluates the effect of little city halls on city services and citizens' attitudes toward the city government; analyzes the recruitment, promotion and disciplinary practices of the civil service; examines the underlying rules of behavior that govern its operation; includes comments on individual city officials...




Boston's Little City Halls


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Common Ground


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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities." "An epic of American city life...a story of such hypnotic specificity that we re-experience all the shades of hope and anger, pity and fear that living anywhere in late 20th-century America has inevitably provoked." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times













The Hub


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Filled with local events as well as intriguing characters, this engaging account vividly captures the spirit and soul of Boston, both yesterday and today."--BOOK JACKET.




Strategies for management change


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