1st Edition
The Closing of the Metropolitan Frontier Cities of the Prairie Revisited
By Daniel Elazar
Copyright 2000
310 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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The period from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s signaled the end of the prosperity of the postwar years enjoyed by the cities of the prairie-those cities located immediately within or adjacent to the Mississippi River drainage system, or what is usually called the American Heartland. During this period, the bottom dropped out of local economies and all collapsed except those upheld by massive... Read more
Introduction; I: Overview; 1: The Civil Community in the Federal System; 2: Closing the Metropolitan Frontier; 3: Political Culture and the Geology of Local Politics; 4: Continuing the Generational Rhythm; 5: Federalism versus Managerialism in the Civil Community; 2: Case Studies; 6: From Industrial City to Metropolitan Civil Community: The Politics of Constitutional Change in Pueblo; 7: Changing Expectations of Local Government in Light of the 1960s: The Cases of Champaign and Urbana; 8: The Agricommercial Tradition on the Metropolitan Frontier: Decatur; 9: The Effect of External Factors on the Medium-Sized Civil Community: The Case of Joliet
Biography
Daniel Elazar
