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Reforming the city : the contested origins of urban government, 1890-1930
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Ariane Liazos examines the urban reform movement that swept through the country in the early twentieth century and its unintended consequences. Reforming the City offers powerful insights into the ...
Ariane Liazos examines the urban reform movement that swept through the country in the early twentieth century and its unintended consequences. Reforming the City offers powerful insights into the relationships between scholarship and reform and between the structures of city government and urban democracy
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- Creator
- Ariane Liazos
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
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- 1 online resource : illustrations
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- ISBNs
- 9780231549370, 0231549377, 9780231191388, 0231191383, 9780231191395, 0231191391, 9780231191388
- OCLC
- on1127052451
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The emergence of the movement for "good city government" : municipal reform -- Associations, c. 1880-1900 -- "Saved by the scholar" : political science, the municipal program, and the National Municipal League, c. 1890-1900 -- The municipal program and early campaigns for charter reform, c. 1895-1910 -- "The franchise problem" : home rule, charter reform, and the provision of public services, c. 1900-1915 -- The commission plan, c. 1900-1915 -- "Whether democracy and efficiency are inherently irreconcilable" : professionalization -- And expertise in municipal reform, c. 1905-1920 -- "The transition to government by experts" : the origins and spread of commission/city manager government, 1912-1925 -- The legacy of the movement for urban reform : state-building and popular control