Kansas City; City Beautiful as a “Stroll in the Park” Kansas City started down its city beautiful path in the early 1870’s. In those years,
Category: Intro Progressive Era Mayors and Policy Systems
Chicago Columbian Exposition: World’s Fair of 1893, Daniel Burnham
The Columbian Exposition If I had to choose one single event or episode over which our history crossed into the modern world, it would be
Social Reform Mayors: Pingree, Other Examples, and La Guardia,
Social Reformers: a real alternative to the Privatist approach After the late 1880’s through the first decade of the twentieth century, several large cities elected
Detroit’s Hazen Pingree as Progressive Era Social Reform Mayor
Detroit’s Hazen Pingree as Progressive Era Social Reform Mayor The earliest, the path-breaker, and, in some ways the most successful was Detroit’s Hazen Pingree. Pingree,
Dayton: John Patterson, Socialists, and the Dayton Plan for City Manager
Dayton: John Patterson, Socialists, and the Dayton Plan Dayton did not wander into its adoption of the city manager form of government—it was led there
Structural Reformers in the Progressive Age and their Predecessors the Gilded Age Mugwumps
Structural Reformers Policy Systems and the Municipal Policy System Last to be discussed, but undoubtedly the most impactful, structural reformers during the Progressive Era set
Ron W. Coan 