Gilded Age Suburbs Arguably, suburbanization is among the most controversial topics in the urban-related professions. Suburbs, like the poor, have always been with us. Suburbs
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Chapter 4: Birth of “Places” for Big City Place-Based Economic Development: Big City CBD and Neighborhoods
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Chapter 4: the Utility and Streetcar Franchise: the Public-Private Hybrid EDO
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Chapter 4: the Gilded Age: Birth of the Northern, Industrial “Big City” and its Economic Base by Sector Agglomeration
In William Dean Howells’s novel, Silas Lapham observed upon returning from Civil War military service: “I found that I had got back to another world.
Chapter 3 Dillon’s Law
DILLON’S LAW We’ve saved the best for last! “Dillon’s Law” is an Iowa state judicial ruling, issued by, of all people, Judge John Dillon in
Chapter 3 GIFT AND LOAN CLAUSES: REGULATING THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
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