Making sense of the city
Subtitle: local government, civic culture, and community life in urban America
By: edited by Robert B. Fairbanks and Patricia Mooney-Melvin.
Contributors: Fairbanks, Robert B. 1950-; Mooney-Melvin, Patricia.; Miller, Zane L.
Series: Urban life and urban landscape series
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Miller, Zane L.; Cities and towns -- United States -- History.; Municipal government -- United States -- History.; City planning -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Festschrift in honor of Zane L. Miller.
Table of contents: value: Reconstituting city government : midcentury state constitution making, defining the municipal corporation, and the public welfare / Judith Spraul-Schmidt; value: The medieval image in the modern mind : history, democracy, and turn-of-the-century American municipal governance / Alan I Marcus; value: Advocating city planning in the public schools : the Chicago and Dallas experiences, 1911-1928 / Robert B. Fairbanks; value: The boss becomes a manager : executive authority and city charter reform, 1880-1929 / Robert A. Burnham; value: Before the neighborhood organization revolution : Cincinnati's neighborhood improvement associations, 1890-1940 / Patricia Mooney-Melvin; value: Playing with democracy : municipal recreation, community organizing, and citizenship / Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh; value: Making history : the search for civic and cultural identity in an American new town, 1940-1980 / Bradley D. Cross; value: Giving meaning to democracy : the development of the fair housing movement in Cincinnati, 1945-1970 / Charles F. Casey-Leininger.