Boston: Hugh O’Brien, Boston’s first Irish mayor, appeared on the scene in 1885. O’Brien, businessman and politician, and editor of Shipping and Commercial List, served
Category: Gilded Age Municipal Policy System Performance and initial Assessment:
Alexander Sheppard’s Political Machine Washington D.C.
Washington DC: Washington D.C. as a policy system seems neither fish nor fowl—through frequently is rather foul. The city does not possess an economic base
The Early Version of Evolution of City Governance to the Gilded Age–Medieval Cities and Push Back to Dillon’s Law
The Post-Civil War Jurisdictional Policy Process Evolution An historical model of a policy area’s policy process presumes one exists in some form. To accommodate
The Early Industrial City Growth and the Physical Landscape: Transportation Innovation, Suburbs, development of Suburban Autonomy
The Industrial City: Growth and the Physical Landscape, In this section, the history emphasizes physical growth and development of the industrial city’s (Big Cities)
An Early Version of Progressivism 1865-1935: Book 2
A Second Ship Sails Upstream: Progressivism 1865-1933 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN BIG CITIES: Big City Progressivism The stream to which we attach the
the City Efficient: Golden Age of Privatism (aka the City Functional or Practical)–an Early Version
Municipal Research Bureaus In the larger cities, municipal leagues were often supplemented by the formation of a second major reform organization: the municipal research
Ron W. Coan 