Making sense of the city : local government, civic culture, and community life in urban America
"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
Print Book, English, ©2001
Ohio State University Press, Columbus, ©2001
History
xi, 192 pages ; 24 cm.
9780814208816, 0814208819
46777382
Reconstituting city government : midcentury state constitution making, defining the municipal corporation, and the public welfare / Judith Spraul-Schmidt
The medieval image in the modern mind : history, democracy, and turn-of-the-century American municipal governance / Alan I Marcus
Advocating city planning in the public schools : the Chicago and Dallas experiences, 1911-1928 / Robert B. Fairbanks
The boss becomes a manager : executive authority and city charter reform, 1880-1929 / Robert A. Burnham
Before the neighborhood organization revolution : Cincinnati's neighborhood improvement associations, 1890-1940 / Patricia Mooney-Melvin
Playing with democracy : municipal recreation, community organizing, and citizenship / Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh
Making history : the search for civic and cultural identity in an American new town, 1940-1980 / Bradley D. Cross
Giving meaning to democracy : the development of the fair housing movement in Cincinnati, 1945-1970 / Charles F. Casey-Leininger
Festschrift in honor of Zane L. Miller