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...




Desegregating the Boston Public Schools


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A report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.




Urban Ports and Harbor Management


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The essays in this book, first published in 1988, explore the changes that have occurred in the modern harbour in the 1970s and 1980s and the many roles of the public port in stimulating or responding to these changes. The goal of this study is to understand the modern harbour and public port and the contemporary pressures on them. The contributors’ disciplines range among geography, law, business, political science, and marine affairs.







Little City Halls


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Strategies for management change


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Compendium of Research Reports


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HUD Research


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