Progressive Cities: The Commission Government Movement in America, 1901–1920

by B.R. Rice

Although the commission government movement is often treated by historians as an element of the reform surge of the Progressive Era, this is the first full-scale study of the origins, spread, and decline of the commission idea. Commission government originated in Galveston, Texas, where business leaders conceived the plan as a temporary measure to speed recovery from the great hurricane of 1900. Other cities in Texas and across the nation soon followed;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292764413
• ISBN13: 9780292764415
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.