A History of American City Government
Author : Ernest S. Griffith
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Ernest S. Griffith
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 022649831X
The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and ’70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in five areas: urban planning and redevelopment, mass transit and highways, higher education, subsidized housing, and the environment. Bloom centers his story on the example set by New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose aggressive initiatives on the pressing issues in that period inspired others and led to the establishment of long-lived state polices in an age of decreasing federal power. Metropolitan areas, for both better and worse, changed and operated differently because of sustained state action—How States Shaped Postwar America uncovers the scope of this largely untold story.
Author : David Goldfield
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1057 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1452265534
We are an urban nation and have been so, officially at least, since the early twentieth century. But long before then, our cities played crucial roles in the economic and political development of the nation, as magnets for immigrants from here and abroad, and as centers of culture and innovation. They still do. Yet, the discipline that we call "Urban History" is really a phenomenon of post-World War II scholarship. Now, after a generation of pathbreaking scholarship that has reoriented and enlightened our perception of the American city, the two volumes of the Encyclopedia of American Urban History offer both a summary and an interpretation of the field. With contributions from leading academics in their fields, this authoritative resource offers an interdisciplinary approach by covering topics from economics, geography, anthropology, politics, and sociology. Key Features Addresses the rise of urban America using a concise, readable, and historical format Focuses on the 20th century—a century with the most dramatic urban growth and a time when the United States transformed from being a nation of shopkeepers and farmers to an urban industrial, and then post-industrial society Defines "urban" broadly, including suburban environments, and even something new and, literally, far out, called "penurbia" Offers both a referential and a reverential approach to produce a work that functions as a research tool and as a commemoration of scholarship Includes contributions from leading academics and scholars as well as from those who work for non-profits, governments, and corporations The Encyclopedia of American Urban History is a fundamental reference work intended to ground and inspire future research in the field. It is an essential resource for any academic library.
Author : Ernest S. Griffith
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,50 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN :
Author : Bayrd Still
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth Fox
Publisher : Philadelphia : Temple University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Chin Jou
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226921921
Supersizing Urban America reveals how the US government has been, and remains, a major contributor to America s obesity epidemic. Government policies, targeted food industry advertising, and other factors helped create and reinforce fast food consumption in America s urban communities. Historian Chin Jou uncovers how predominantly African-American neighborhoods went from having no fast food chains to being deluged. She lays bare the federal policies that helped to subsidize the expansion of the fast food industry in America s cities and explains how fast food companies have deliberately and relentlessly marketed to urban, African-American consumers. These developments are a significant factor in why Americans, especially those in urban, low-income, minority communities, have become disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic."
Author : Charles Nelson Glaab
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Ernest Stacey Griffith
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 9780819130020
Author : Sam Bass Warner, Jr.
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262300923
An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis. American Urban Form—the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life—has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. The changing patterns of houses, buildings, streets, parks, pipes and wires, wharves, railroads, highways, and airports reflect changing patterns of the social, political, and economic processes that shape the city. In this book, Sam Bass Warner and Andrew Whittemore map more than three hundred years of the American city through the evolution of urban form. They do this by offering an illustrated history of “the City”—a hypothetical city (constructed from the histories of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York) that exemplifies the American city's transformation from village to regional metropolis. In an engaging text accompanied by Whittemore's detailed, meticulous drawings, they chart the City's changes. Planning for the future of cities, they remind us, requires an understanding of the forces that shaped the city's past.