Urban Revitalization
Urban Revitalization

Author: Fritz W. Wagner

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published: 1995-01-25

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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This collection of case studies focuses on seven US cities and consider revitalization programmes over the past 15-20 years and analyze their successes and failures. The studies were carried out by the National Center for the Revitalization of Central Cities in 1990 under the auspices of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Center commissioned leading scholars to carry out this research and develop programmes and strategies for a national policy for revitalizing central cities.

Agency Merger and Bureaucratic Redesign
Agency Merger and Bureaucratic Redesign

Author: Karen M. Hult

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 2010-11-23

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0822976463

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Since the expansion of public programs in the 1960s, charges of bureaucratic inefficiency, unresponsiveness, and "red tape" have been rampant. The response has often been extensive reorganization in an effort to change the source of control, carry out specific missions, and to achieve greater inter-agency cooperation. Karen M. Hult examines why these restructurings often fail, through three case studies: the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Design (HUD); the Minnesota Department of Energy, Planning, and Development; and the Minneapolis Community Development Agency. Hult's study assesses the usefulness of mergers and reorganizations as a policy tool, and offers a valuable contribution to the study of public management and organization design.

Minneapolis in the Twentieth Century
Minneapolis in the Twentieth Century

Author: Iric Nathanson

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780873517256

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Today, Minneapolis is considered one of the most desirable places to live in the United States. However, like most cities, Minneapolis has its own checkered history. Iric Nathanson shines a light in dark corners of the city's past, exploring corruption that existed between the police department and city hall, brutal suppression of Depression-era unions, and reports on anti-Semitism at midcentury. Still other subjects that on the surface seem disparaging offer the city's residents an opportunity to shine. Community leaders make a difference during the "long, hot summer" of 1967, when racial violence exploded across the country. Concerned neighbors guide transportation policy from more and bigger highways to forward-looking light rail transit. A forgotten riverfront is transformed into a magnet for people wishing to live and play at the site of the city's earliest successes. Nathanson skillfully tells these stories and more, always with an eye toward how noteworthy characters, plotlines, and scenes helped create the Minneapolis we know today.

Cops and Neighbors
Cops and Neighbors

Author: Sharon Ramirez

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1994-05

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 0788107534

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Describes a crime fighting, community-building partnership between an urban police department and an inner-city community organization. Delineates the project's operations, successes and difficulties. Also presents an ideal community-based policing model based on lessons learned from the project.

Stadium Games
Stadium Games

Author: Jay Weiner

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 9780816634347

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"Stadium Games begins with the events leading to the arrival of the Twins and Vikings to the state in 1961 and traces subsequent controversies about professional sports in the region up to the present. Weiner discusses the factors that make Minnesota the poster child for the nation's stadium debates - the recent departure of the North Stars hockey team, the near departure of the Timberwolves, the strong opposition of taxpayers, and the apparent greed of team owners. Stadium Games reveals the behind-the-scenes deals and inside scoop on what went wrong in the recent unsuccessful campaign for a new ballpark, divulging how public relations experts failed and how government leaders conspired to fake out Minnesota's citizens."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Jewish Community of North Minneapolis
Jewish Community of North Minneapolis

Author: Rhoda Lewin

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780738508177

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The stories of the Jewish community of North Minneapolis are an important part of the rich and diverse mosaic of North Minneapolis history. By 1936, there were more than 16,000 Jew in Minneapolis, and 70 percent of them lived on the North Side. The Jewish Community of North Minneapolis presents an intriguing record of the earliest beginnings of Jewish communities in the city. Through the medium of historic photographs, this book captures the cultural, economic, political, and social history of this community, from the late 1800s to the present day. The Jews in North Minneapolis enjoyed a busy social and cultural life with their landsmanschaften, and shopped together at the kosher butcher shops and fish markets, grocery stores and bakeries, clothing stores, barber shops, restaurants, and other small businesses that had sprung up along Sixth Avenue North and then Plymouth Avenue. Including vintage images and tales of the community-Hebrew schools, synagogues, and social groups-this collection uncovers the challenges and triumphs of the Jewish community.