Opening of the Cybernetic Frontier - Cities of the Prairie

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Elazar Klappentext This work completes an ongoing multi-generational! comparative study of 10 medium-sized communities located in five Prairie and Plains states - Illinois! Iowa! Minnesota! Wisconsin! and Colorado. It traces developments in these communities during the 1980s and 1990s. Zusammenfassung The Opening of the Cybernetic Frontier is the third in-J Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Themes and Theses Part 1 Reconstitution, Building Civic Capital, Economic Renewal 1 The Civil Community and Its Governance 2 The Internal Dynamics of the Cities of the Prairie 3 The Cities and Their Environment 4 Civil Community, Government, and the New Frontier 5 The Cities of the Prairie in Cyberspace 6 New Departures Part 2 Northeastern Illinois and Chicagoland 7 The Rockford Civil Community: New Kid in the Northeastern Bloc 8 The Joliet Civil Community: A Buckle on the Rustbelt Part 3 Central Illinois: The Grand Prairie 9 The Peoria Civil Community: Recession and Recovery in the Illinois Valley 10 Champaign-Urbana: Prosperity on the Prairie 11 Decatur: Agribusiness in a Cybernetic Age 12 Springfield: Capital Prospering Part 4 Western Illinois: North and South 13 The Southwestern Illinois Metropolitan Region 14 The Quad Cities: The “State of Scott” and Illinois’ Northwest Part 5 Across the Mississippi 15 The Duluth Civil Community: The End of a Long Depression? 16 Pueblo, Colorado: Modernization and the Mobilization of Public Capital: 1967-1997 Part 6 A Summation 17 Building Civil Community on the Cybernetic Frontier. Conclusion: Citizenship and Public in Metropolitan America

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• Authors: Marshall Derosa, Daniel Elazar, Daniel J. Elazar, Daniel J. Et Al Elazar, et Al, Joseph R. Marbach, Karl Nollenberger, Maren Allan Stein
• Assisted by: Joseph Marbach (Editor), Rozanne R. Rothman (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2004
• EAN: 9780765802019
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0201-9
• No. of pages: 420
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Cultural Studies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, History of the Americas, Urban communities