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Author : San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Park Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Parks
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117748546
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Parks
ISBN : NYPL:33433082505193
Author : San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Park Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Parks
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117748579
Author : Jon C. Teaford
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421435251
Originally published in 1984. In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of cities" to be "the one conspicuous failure of the United States." During the following two decades, urban reformers would repeat Bryce's words with ritualistic regularity; nearly a century later, his comment continues to set the tone for most assessments of nineteenth-century city government. Yet by the end of the century, as Jon Teaford argues in this important reappraisal, American cities boasted the most abundant water supplies, brightest street lights, grandest parks, largest public libraries, and most efficient systems of transportation in the world. Far from being a "conspicuous failure," municipal governments of the late nineteenth century had successfully met challenges of an unprecedented magnitude and complexity. The Unheralded Triumph draws together the histories of the most important cities of the Gilded Age—especially New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Baltimore—to chart the expansion of services and the improvement of urban environments between 1870 and 1900. It examines the ways in which cities were transformed, in a period of rapid population growth and increased social unrest, into places suitable for living. Teaford demonstrates how, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, municipal governments adapted to societal change with the aid of generally compliant state legislatures. These were the years that saw the professionalization of city government and the political accommodation of the diverse ethnic, economic, and social elements that compose America's heterogeneous urban society. Teaford acknowledges that the expansion of urban services dangerously strained city budgets and that graft, embezzlement, overcharging, and payroll-padding presented serious problems throughout the period. The dissatisfaction with city governments arose, however, not so much from any failure to achieve concrete results as from the conflicts between those hostile groups accommodated within the newly created system: "For persons of principle and gentlemen who prized honor, it seemed a failure yet American municipal government left as a legacy such achievements as Central Park, the new Croton Aqueduct, and the Brooklyn Bridge, monuments of public enterprise that offered new pleasures and conveniences for millions of urban citizens."
Author : Fall River (Mass.). Board of Park Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Parks
ISBN : HARVARD:LI3BXQ
Author : New York (N.Y.). Board of Commissioners of the Central Park
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106439805
Author : Mel Scott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520055101
Author : Racine (Wis.). Board of Park Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Parks
ISBN : WISC:89114574627
Author : San Francisco (Calif.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:LI1E2C
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : American literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433000086706
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : California. Legislature
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : California
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001112411
Author : California. Legislature. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : California
ISBN : UCD:31175032134374
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : California
ISBN : NYPL:33433008713194
Author : California. Legislature
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : California
ISBN : SRLF:A0004374146
