Railroads and the Competitive Urban Hierarchy Early transportation infrastructure (roads) meant access to a city’s hinterland— hinterlands were the source of domestic migrants, raw materials
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Chapter 3 Competitive Urban Hierarchy, Transportation Infrastructure the First EDO–the Corporate State-Charter, Canals and Steamboats
COMPETITIVE HIERARCHIES: TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Early Republic America was not urban by today’s standards. Port cities were America’s most populated centers. Ignoring a
Chapter 3 “Tools of the ED Trade” Tax Abatement and Eminent Domain’s Historical Roots
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TOOLS Tax abatement and eminent domain have generated more paper, debate and bad feeling, and produced more cost-benefit studies than any other ED
Chapter 3 Intro to Early Republic Economic Development and Role of the National Federal Government
Early Republic Economic Development Most economic developers today probably attend the “church of what’s happening now.” History, however, preaches its own version of “old-time religion.”
Chapter 2 Summary and Observations on Political Culture and Cultural Migrations
WHAT’S GOING ON? Take Away and Summary of Chap 2 Culture and Migrations In an age of multiculturalism, ethnic and religious political cultures seem out
Chapter 2 Foreign Immigration and Diffusion of Political Cultures: Irish and Germans
The Impact of Foreign Immigration on Political Cultures New England Yankees and southern planters were internal migrations—as were the post-Revolutionary War movements of the Scots-Irish.
Ron W. Coan 