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,
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the First Political Machines: Philadelphia Gas House Gang 1841 and the Pennsylvania State House Gang–An Early Version
Political Machines: Monkey Wrench or People-Based Economic Development Mention the words “political machine” and visions dance in one’s head of Tammany Hall, the Tweed
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)
Corporate Structure, National Markets and Concentration: Changing Business Elites and Early Republic to Gilded Age
Corporate Structure, National Markets and Concentration: Changing Business Elites One thing for certain, economic change during the Gilded Age profoundly transformed business elites and jurisdictional
Competitive Hierarchy: An Early Version of Early Republic Transportation Infrastructure
Competitive Hierarchies: Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Development Transportation infrastructure was a crucial economic development need in the Early Republic era. That strategy required cities and
the Early Version of the Yankee Diaspora
The New England Yankee Diaspora “The New England Yankees … were almost entirely the descendants of 21,000 Puritans who arrived between 1629 and 1640.”[1] For
Ron W. Coan 