City Government in the United States
Author : Frank J. Goodnow
Publisher : New York, Century
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Municipal government
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Author : Frank J. Goodnow
Publisher : New York, Century
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Municipal government
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Author : Thomas Harrison Reed
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Municipal government
ISBN :
Author : Frank J. Goodnow
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Municipal government
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Ronald Conkling
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Municipal government
ISBN :
Author : Frank J. Goodnow
Publisher :
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,6 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Municipal government
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Author : Herman Gerlach James
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Jon C. Teaford
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 15,32 MB
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 142143525X
Originally published in 1984. In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of cities" to be "the one conspicuous failure of the United States." During the following two decades, urban reformers would repeat Bryce's words with ritualistic regularity; nearly a century later, his comment continues to set the tone for most assessments of nineteenth-century city government. Yet by the end of the century, as Jon Teaford argues in this important reappraisal, American cities boasted the most abundant water supplies, brightest street lights, grandest parks, largest public libraries, and most efficient systems of transportation in the world. Far from being a "conspicuous failure," municipal governments of the late nineteenth century had successfully met challenges of an unprecedented magnitude and complexity. The Unheralded Triumph draws together the histories of the most important cities of the Gilded Age—especially New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Baltimore—to chart the expansion of services and the improvement of urban environments between 1870 and 1900. It examines the ways in which cities were transformed, in a period of rapid population growth and increased social unrest, into places suitable for living. Teaford demonstrates how, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, municipal governments adapted to societal change with the aid of generally compliant state legislatures. These were the years that saw the professionalization of city government and the political accommodation of the diverse ethnic, economic, and social elements that compose America's heterogeneous urban society. Teaford acknowledges that the expansion of urban services dangerously strained city budgets and that graft, embezzlement, overcharging, and payroll-padding presented serious problems throughout the period. The dissatisfaction with city governments arose, however, not so much from any failure to achieve concrete results as from the conflicts between those hostile groups accommodated within the newly created system: "For persons of principle and gentlemen who prized honor, it seemed a failure yet American municipal government left as a legacy such achievements as Central Park, the new Croton Aqueduct, and the Brooklyn Bridge, monuments of public enterprise that offered new pleasures and conveniences for millions of urban citizens."
Author : James H. Svara
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1589017099
More than Mayor or Manager offers in-depth case studies of fourteen large U.S. cities that have considered changing their form of government over the past two decades. The case studies shed light on what these constitutional contests teach us about different forms of governmentùthe causes that support movements for change, what the advocates of change promised, what is at stake for the nature of elected and professional leadership and the relationship between leaders, and why some referendums succeeded while others failed. --
Author : Harold Zink
Publisher :
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Cities and towns
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Author : Everett Kimball
Publisher :
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Local government
ISBN :