A Nation of Cities
A Nation of Cities

Author: Mark I. Gelfand

Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13:

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Examines the struggle waged by big city politicians and other urban interest groups to open the door for a federal-city relationship fromt he first breakthrough during the New Deal through the establishment of a Cabinet level department of Urban Affairs during the Johnson Administration.

The Fate of Cities
The Fate of Cities

Author: Roger Biles

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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The first major comprehensive treatment of urban revitalization in 35 years. Examines the federal government's relationship with urban America from the Truman through the Clinton administrations. Provides a telling critique of how, in the long run, government turned a blind eye to the fate of cities.

More Than Mayor Or Manager
More Than Mayor Or Manager

Author: James H. Svara

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2010-12-02

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1589017099

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More than Mayor or Manager offers in-depth case studies of fourteen large U.S. cities that have considered changing their form of government over the past two decades. The case studies shed light on what these constitutional contests teach us about different forms of governmentùthe causes that support movements for change, what the advocates of change promised, what is at stake for the nature of elected and professional leadership and the relationship between leaders, and why some referendums succeeded while others failed. --