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Making Sense of the City: Local Government, Civic Culture, and Community Life in Urban America.(Book Review)
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Urban History Review
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September 22, 2005
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Fairbanks, Robert, and Patricia Mooney-Melvin (eds.) Making Sense of the City. Local Government, Civic Culture, and Community Life in Urban America. Columbus: Ohio State University, 2001. Pp. 192.
This book is a collection of urban historical essays in honor of Zane Miller, professor at the University of Cincinnati. As is explained in the preface of the book, Miller brought to urban history a perspective centred on conceptions of the city as main drivers of how city life and governance evolve over time. "Zane's exploration of the political response to Cincinnatians to the impact of rapid urbanization at the end of the nineteenth century moved beyond the battle between the ...
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