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,
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Charles Mulford Robinson: Integration of Civic Improvement Associations into the City Beautiful Fabric
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Civic Improvement Associations and Andrew Jackson Downing: Mid-19th Century CD
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Developing the Little Economies: 1957-1958 the Area Development Committee of the Committee for Economic Development (CED)
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Explosion of Sub-Municipal EDOs: BID, TIF, Main Street, EDZ
Explosion in Sub-Municipal EDOs The eighties witnessed a veritable explosion of new programs-strategies which created literally, thousands of sub-municipal specialized EDOs, still currently active
The Feds Regroup: Carter and Reagan Years
Carter Years The Carter economic backdrop included inflation (stagflation), leading to a 1980 21.5% prime rate triggered by 1973 and 1979 oil/energy crises.
Ron W. Coan 