Making Sense of the City: Local Government, Civic Culture, and Community Life in Urban America

by Robert B. Fairbanks and Patricia Mooney-Melvin

Book Overview

Making Sense of the City explores the ways in which urbanites have attempted to confront the challenges of urban life during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the spirit of Zane L. Miller, whom this volume honors, the nine contributors focus closely on the words and actions of individuals, institutions, and organizations who participated in the public discourse about what the city was or could be. Through an examination of such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814257194
• ISBN13: 9780814257197
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"