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Category: City-Building

the Gilded Age Jurisdictional Policy System: An Opening Intro from Early Version

March 31, 2020 edcurmudgeon

the Gilded Age Jurisdictional Policy System:   Jon C. Teaford observed thatthe Gilded Age city did better than contemporary history admits. The “perfect storm” of

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Cleveland: City Beautiful as “a City on a Hill”

March 25, 2020 edcurmudgeon

Cleveland: City Beautiful as “a City on a Hill”             The most tangible tie with Downing’s romanticism sprung from a 1895 design competition advocated in

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Retirement Migration: Sun City and Del Webb

March 22, 2020 edcurmudgeon

Retirement Migration:  A little-mentioned, hidden-in-plain-sight population movement with lots of implications for ED is Retirement Migration (a generational cohort migration). Yes, Florida and Arizona captured

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Chicago City-Building: William B. Ogden

March 17, 2020 edcurmudgeon

Chapter 2 Chicago C-B   The ICRR model was in essence government contracting with a private corporation to devise and manage its core economic development

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7.3 Rise of New York City and Policy System Change: Impact from the Erie Canal

September 15, 2019 edcurmudgeon

New York City’s Breakout As we have discovered in earlier modules, New York City’s rise can be traced from 1783, the departure of the Royalists,

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  • Gates, De La Warr and Dale Expeditions and Jamestown’s Implosion
  • Virginia: 1629 thru Berkeley Vol 2
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  • the First Republic: Articles of Confederation
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  • Virginia: 1629 thru Berkeley Vol 2
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