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Making sense of the city : local government, civic culture, and community life in urban America

Title
Making sense of the city : local government, civic culture, and community life in urban America / edited by Robert B. Fairbanks and Patricia Mooney-Melvin.
Publication
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Fairbanks, Robert B. (Robert Bruce), 1950-
  • Mooney-Melvin, Patricia.
  • Miller, Zane L.
Description
xi, 192 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"Making Sense of the City explores the ways in which urbanites have attempted to confront the challenges of urban life during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the spirit of Zane L. Miller, whom this volume honors, the nine contributors focus closely on the words and actions of individuals, institutions, and organizations who participated in the public discourse about what the city was or could be. Through an examination of such topics as city charters, city planning texts, neighborhood organizations, municipal recreation programs, urban government reforms, urban identity, and fair housing campaigns, the authors offer insight into the process through which ideas about the nature of the city have affected action in the urban environment."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Urban life and urban landscape series
Uniform Title
Urban life and urban landscape series.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Festschrift in honor of Zane L. Miller.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Robert B. Fairbanks, Patricia Mooney-Melvin -- Reconstituting city government / Judith Spraul-Schmidt -- The medieval image in the modern mind / Alan I. Marcus -- Advocating city planning in the public schools / Robert B. Fairbanks -- The boss becomes a manager / Robert A. Burnham -- Before the neighborhood organization revolution / Patricia Mooney-Melvin -- Playing with democracy / Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh -- Making history / Bradley D. Cross -- Giving meaning to democracy / Charles F. Casey-Leininger -- Postscript / Roger W. Lotchin.
ISBN
  • 0814208819
  • 9780814208816
LCCN
2001002155
OCLC
  • ocm46777382
  • 46777382
  • SCSB-8934771
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library