Author : Terrence J. McDonald
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0520329996
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.
Author : Philip J. Ethington
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 2001-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0520230019
A new look at how the issues of concern in the public sphere were influenced by journalism and political organizing in American cities in the second half of the 19th century.
Author : Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271044586
The 1992 Los Angeles riots catapulted the problems of the city back onto the policy agenda. The cauldron of social problems of the city, as the riots showed, offers no simple solutions. Indeed, urban policy includes a range of policy issues involving welfare, housing, job training, education, drug control, and the environment. The myriad of local, state, and federal agencies only further complicates formulating and implementing coherent policies for the city. This volume, while not offering specific proposals to remedy the problems of the city, provides a broad historical context for discussing contemporary urban policy and for arriving at new prescriptions for relieving the ills of the American city. The essays address issues related to public housing, poverty, transportation, and the environment. In doing so, the authors discuss larger themes in urban policy as well as provide case studies of how policies have been implemented over time in specific cities. Of particular interest are two essays that discuss the role of the historian in shaping urban policy and the importance of historical preservation in urban planning.
Author : Terrence J McDonald
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 1984-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The existing literature on urban history focuses chiefly on the social aspects, while political and fiscal components of urban history have been almost completely ignored. This book addresses the important question of urban fiscal policy, giving the issue an historical and theoretical perspective with a strong empirical base.
Author : Destin Jenkins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 2022-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226819981
"Cities require infrastructure as they grow and persist; infrastructure requires funding, typically from the bond market. But the bond market is not a neutral player. In this groundbreaking book, Destin Jenkins suggests that questions of urban infrastructure are inherently also questions of justice because infrastructure requires financial mechanisms to come into being. Moreover, these mechanisms abstract cities into investments controlled from afar, which exacerbates local inequalities of race, wealth, and power. Ultimately, Jenkins opens up far larger questions, such as why it is that American social welfare is predicated on the demands of finance capitalism in the first place"--
Author : Robin L. Einhorn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2001-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226194868
In Property Rules, Robin L. Einhorn uses City Council records-previously thought destroyed-and census data to track the course of city government in Chicago, providing an important reinterpretation of the relationship between political and social structures in the nineteenth-century American city. A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book" "[A] masterful study of policy-making in Chicago."—Choice "[A] major contribution to urban and political history. . . . [A]n excellent book."—Jeffrey S. Adler, American Historical Review "[A]n enlightening trip. . . . Einhorn's foray helps make sense out of the transition from Jacksonian to Gilded Age politics on the local level. . . . [She] has staked out new ground that others would do well to explore."—Arnold R. Hirsch, American Journal of Legal History "A well-documented and informative classic on urban politics."—Daniel W. Kwong, Law Books in Review
Author : Eric Fure-Slocum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1107036356
Focusing on midcentury Milwaukee, Eric Fure-Slocum charts the remaking of political culture in the industrial city. Professor Fure-Slocum shows how two contending visions of the 1940s city - working-class politics and growth politics - fit together uneasily and were transformed amid a series of social and policy clashes. Contests that pitted the principles of democratic access and distribution against efficiency and productivity included the hard-fought politics of housing and redevelopment, controversies over petty gambling, questions about the role of organized labor in urban life, and battles over municipal fiscal policy and autonomy. These episodes occurred during a time of rapid change in the city's working class, as African-American workers arrived to seek jobs, women temporarily advanced in workplaces, and labor unions grew. At the same time, businesses and property owners sought to reestablish legitimacy in the changing landscape. This study examines these local conflicts, showing how they forged the postwar city and laid a foundation for the neoliberal city.
Author : Robert M. Fogelson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300098278
Annotation Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. Urban historian Robert Fogelson gives a riveting account of how downtown--and the way Americans thought about it--changed between 1880 and 1950. Recreating battles over subways and skyscrapers, the introduction of elevated highways and parking bans, and other controversies, this book provides a new and often starling perspective on downtown's rise and fall.
Author : Ester R. Fuchs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 1992-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226267906
Chicago and New York share similar backgrounds but have had strikingly different fates. Tracing their fortunes from the 1930s to the present day, Ester R. Fuchs examines key policy decisions which have influenced the political structures of these cities and guided them into, or clear of, periods of economic crisis.
Author : Terrence J. McDonald
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0520369378
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.
