Urbanization of Modern America: A Brief History

Politics & Social Sciences

MILLER, ZANE L.

Sociology

Harcourt College Pub.

The Urbanization of Modern America: A Brief History (History of European Civilization Library)

Harcourt

Urbanization of Modern America: A Brief History

Social Sciences

In the late nineteenth century, a new era began in American urban history, characterized by an explosion of both the populations and the proportions of cities, obliterating their traditional social and physical characteristics. Commercial businesses relocated, slums emerged around the core, and new residential areas were established along the periphery. The period was one of extreme disorder -- labor and ethnic unrest, election violence, rising crime rates -- but it was also a time of political innovation and civic achievement.In documenting the changes Cincinnati experienced during the Progressive Era, Zane L. Miller provides a clear perspective on the processes of urbanization that transformed the American city. His focus is political because politics provided continuity amid the diversity of city life. The most important aspect of political continuity in Cincinnati and in other cities was "bossism", often depicted as an example of corruption, but which was in many cities part of the quest for a new urban order. In Cincinnati, Boss George B. Cox's machine was a response to the disorder of the times; interestingly, the machine actually helped to control disorder, paving the way for later reforms. Miller carefully explores both the nature and the significance of bossism, showing how it and municipal reform were both essential components of the modern urban political system.Originally published in 1968, Boss Cox's Cincinnati is considered a classic in the field of urban studies.

Boss Cox's Cincinnati: Urban Politics in the Progressive Era (Phoenix Book)

History

Americas

University of Chicago Press

Boss Cox's Cincinnati: Urban Politics in the Progressive Era

Wade, Richard C.

Greenwood Pub Group

Urban Professionals and the Future of the Metropolis

Dubeck, Paula

Associated Faculty Pr Inc

Almost every American city has or had neighborhoods like Clifton, which developed in the mid-nineteenth century as a silk-stocking suburb with a more diverse population than most observers noticed. Incorporated by Cincinnati in the late nineteenth century, Clifton had a reputation as a better-than-average place in which to live, a view that persisted until the end of the twentieth century.In Visions of Place, Zane L. Miller treats ideas about the nature of cities -- including their neighborhoods and their suburbs -- as the dynamic factors in Clifton's experience and examines the changes in Clifton's social, physical, civic, and political structure resulting from these transforming notions. These structural shifts involved a variety of familiar nineteenth-and twentieth-century urban phenomena, including not only the switch from suburban village to city neighborhood and the salience of interracial fears but also the rise of formal city planning and conflicts among Protestants, Catholics, and Jews over the future of Clifton's religious and ethnic ambiance.Miller concludes with a policy analysis of current and future prospects for neighborhoods like Clifton and the cities and metropolitan areas of which they form a part.

VISIONS OF PLACE: CITY, NEIGHBORHOODS, SUBURBS, AND CINCINNATI'S CLIFTON, 1850–2000 (URBAN LIFE & URBAN LANDSCAPE)

Ohio State University Press

BOSS COX'S CINCINNATI: URBAN POLITICS IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD P CHUDACOFF (URBAN LIFE & URBAN LANDSCAPE)

Chudacoff, Howard P.

Almost every American city has or had neighborhoods like Clifton, which developed in the mid-nineteenth century as a silk-stocking suburb with a more diverse population than most observers noticed. Incorporated by Cincinnati in the late nineteenth century, Clifton had a reputation as a better-than-average place in which to live, a view that persisted until the end of the twentieth century. In Visions of Place, Zane L. Miller treats ideas about the nature of cities--including their neighborhoods and their suburbs--as the dynamic factors in Clifton's experience and examines the changes in Clifton's social, physical, civic, and political structure resulting from these transforming notions. These structural shifts involved a variety of familiar nineteenth- and twentieth-century urban phenomena, including not only the switch from suburban village to city neighborhood and the salience of interracial fears but also the rise of formal city planning and conflicts among Protestants, Catholics, and Jews over the future of Clifton's religious and ethnic ambiance. Miller concludes with a policy analysis of current and future prospects for neighborhoods like Clifton and the cities and metropolitan areas of which they form a part.

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