Kansas City Kansas City: City Beautiful as a “Stroll in the Park” Kansas City started down its city beautiful path in the early 1870’s.
Category: Book 3
Boston in the Progressive Age: the Noble Experiment, the Boston Plan, Honey Fitz–and the Machine
Boston: Blending City Beautiful, Structural Reform and Policy Swirls—and the Machine On March 30, 1909, at the prestigious Boston City Club, the opening speaker,
Hazen Pingree: Detroit’s Social Reform Mayor and his Arch Enemy the Citizens Railway
Detroit Hazen Pingree as Social Reform Mayor The earliest, the path-breaker, and, in some ways the most successful was Detroit’s Hazen Pingree. Pingree, a wealthy
the Birth of the City Manager: the Reformed City, John Dayton and the Dayton Plan, and Ohio’s Progressive Era Diversity in Form of Government
The City Manager and Reformed Cities Structural reform as government capacity-building was every bit as important as change in form of government. In fact, the
New York City in the Progressive Age: Seth Low, George McClellan Jr, Hearst, John Purroy Mitchel
New York City: Apparently You Can’t Do it There! Nothing like a good case study to demonstrate the distinctions among Progressive policy systems while emphasizing
Irish Machine Bosses: New York City, Buffalo, Boston
New York City, Buffalo and Boston Irish-Dominated Machines First and second generation immigrant voters can differ in their occupations, orientation to politics, their residential location
Ron W. Coan 