Author: Keith D. Revell

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780801882067

These issues of city-building and institutional change involved more than the familiar push and pull of interest groups or battles between bosses, reformers, immigrants, and natives. Revell explores the ways in which technical values - a distinctive civic culture of expertise - helped to reshape ideas of community, generate new centers of public authority, and change the physical landscape of New York City."--Jacket.