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
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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
An Early Version of the State as ED Player: State SSS, origins of 20th Century EDOs, and State Business Competition, the Competitive Hierarchy
The State in Sub-State Economic Development The years between 1865 and 1933 were years of development, transition, and evolution for states as they were
An Earlier and Expanded Treatment of Suburbanization During the 1920’s: Planned Suburbs, the New York Regional Plan, Perry & Neighborhood,Housing and UR, and More
Goings On in the Competitive Urban Hierarchy: Should We Be Concerned about Suburbs? Sociologist R. D. McKenzie commented in 1933 that Big Cities were
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