Testimony Taken Before The Senate Committee On Cities Pursuant To Resolution Adopted January 20 1890
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Author | : New York (State). Legislature. Senate. Committee on Cities |
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Total Pages | : 924 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Municipal government |
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Author | : New York (State). Legislature. Senate |
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Total Pages | : 1040 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : Daniel J. Czitrom |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199837007 |
Parkhurst's challenge -- The buttons -- Democratic city, Republican nation -- Anarchy vs. corruption -- A rocky start -- Managing vice, extorting business -- "Reform never suffers from frankness" -- "A landslide, a tidal wave, a cyclone" -- Endgames -- Epilogue: the Lexow effect
Author | : Robert Clarkson Brooks |
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Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
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Author | : Robert Clarkson Brooks |
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Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
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Total Pages | : 970 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Municipal government |
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Devoted to the consideration of city problems from the steadpoint of the taxpayer and citizen.
Author | : Jon C. Teaford |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 142143525X |
Originally published in 1984. In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of cities" to be "the one conspicuous failure of the United States." During the following two decades, urban reformers would repeat Bryce's words with ritualistic regularity; nearly a century later, his comment continues to set the tone for most assessments of nineteenth-century city government. Yet by the end of the century, as Jon Teaford argues in this important reappraisal, American cities boasted the most abundant water supplies, brightest street lights, grandest parks, largest public libraries, and most efficient systems of transportation in the world. Far from being a "conspicuous failure," municipal governments of the late nineteenth century had successfully met challenges of an unprecedented magnitude and complexity. The Unheralded Triumph draws together the histories of the most important cities of the Gilded Age—especially New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Baltimore—to chart the expansion of services and the improvement of urban environments between 1870 and 1900. It examines the ways in which cities were transformed, in a period of rapid population growth and increased social unrest, into places suitable for living. Teaford demonstrates how, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, municipal governments adapted to societal change with the aid of generally compliant state legislatures. These were the years that saw the professionalization of city government and the political accommodation of the diverse ethnic, economic, and social elements that compose America's heterogeneous urban society. Teaford acknowledges that the expansion of urban services dangerously strained city budgets and that graft, embezzlement, overcharging, and payroll-padding presented serious problems throughout the period. The dissatisfaction with city governments arose, however, not so much from any failure to achieve concrete results as from the conflicts between those hostile groups accommodated within the newly created system: "For persons of principle and gentlemen who prized honor, it seemed a failure yet American municipal government left as a legacy such achievements as Central Park, the new Croton Aqueduct, and the Brooklyn Bridge, monuments of public enterprise that offered new pleasures and conveniences for millions of urban citizens."
Author | : New York (State). Legislature. Senate. Committee on Cities |
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Total Pages | : 954 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Municipal government |
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Author | : Stacy Horn |
Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1616205768 |
“A riveting character-driven dive into 19th-century New York and the extraordinary history of Blackwell’s Island.” —Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica On a two-mile stretch of land in New York’s East River, a 19th-century horror story was unfolding . . . Today we call it Roosevelt Island. Then, it was Blackwell’s, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals. Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world ever seen, Blackwell’s Island quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, “a lounging, listless madhouse.” In the first contemporary investigative account of Blackwell’s, Stacy Horn tells this chilling narrative through the gripping voices of the island’s inhabitants, as well as the period’s officials, reformers, and journalists, including the celebrated Nellie Bly. Digging through city records, newspaper articles, and archival reports, Horn brings this forgotten history alive: there was terrible overcrowding; prisoners were enlisted to care for the insane; punishment was harsh and unfair; and treatment was nonexistent. Throughout the book, we return to the extraordinary Reverend William Glenney French as he ministers to Blackwell’s residents, battles the bureaucratic mazes of the Department of Correction and a corrupt City Hall, testifies at salacious trials, and in his diary wonders about man’s inhumanity to man. In Damnation Island, Stacy Horn shows us how far we’ve come in caring for the least fortunate among us—and reminds us how much work still remains.
Author | : Frank Mann Stewart |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0520347919 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.