LEADER 04706nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910459675903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6851-5 010 $a0-8014-7655-0 010 $a0-8014-6011-5 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460111 035 $a(CKB)2670000000080984 035 $a(OCoLC)726824282 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457643 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000482553 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11323404 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000482553 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10526068 035 $a(PQKB)11701073 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138021 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28740 035 $a(DE-B1597)478467 035 $a(OCoLC)979910333 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460111 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138021 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457643 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681330 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000080984 100 $a20100426d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aActivists in City Hall$b[electronic resource] $ethe progressive response to the Reagan era in Boston and Chicago /$fPierre Clavel 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (252 p.) 225 0 $aCornell paperbacks 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50048-7 311 $a0-8014-4929-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tList of Acronyms -- $t1. The Progressive City: Concept and Context -- $t2. What the Progressive City Was -- $t3. The Movement Becomes Politics in Boston -- $t4. Flynn's City Hall and the Neighborhoods -- $t5. Neighborhood Background and the Campaign in Chicago -- $t6. Washington in City Hall -- $t7. Later Developments in Chicago -- $t8. Race, Class, and the Administrative Struggle -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 1983, Boston and Chicago elected progressive mayors with deep roots among community activists. Taking office as the Reagan administration was withdrawing federal aid from local governments, Boston's Raymond Flynn and Chicago's Harold Washington implemented major policies that would outlast them. More than reforming governments, they changed the substance of what the government was trying to do: above all, to effect a measure of redistribution of resources to the cities' poor and working classes and away from hollow goals of "growth" as measured by the accumulation of skyscrapers. In Boston, Flynn moderated an office development boom while securing millions of dollars for affordable housing. In Chicago, Washington implemented concrete measures to save manufacturing jobs, against the tide of national policy and trends.Activists in City Hall examines how both mayors achieved their objectives by incorporating neighborhood activists as a new organizational force in devising, debating, implementing, and shaping policy. Based in extensive archival research enriched by details and insights gleaned from hours of interviews with key figures in each administration and each city's activist community, Pierre Clavel argues that key to the success of each mayor were numerous factors: productive contacts between city hall and neighborhood activists, strong social bases for their agendas, administrative innovations, and alternative visions of the city. Comparing the experiences of Boston and Chicago with those of other contemporary progressive cities-Hartford, Berkeley, Madison, Santa Cruz, Santa Monica, Burlington, and San Francisco-Activists in City Hall provides a new account of progressive urban politics during the Reagan era and offers many valuable lessons for policymakers, city planners, and progressive political activists. 410 0$aCornell paperbacks. 606 $aCommunity activists$zMassachusetts$zBoston 606 $aCommunity activists$zIllinois$zChicago 606 $aUrban policy$zMassachusetts$zBoston 606 $aUrban policy$zIllinois$zChicago 606 $aProgressivism (United States politics) 607 $aBoston (Mass.)$xPolitics and government 607 $aChicago (Ill.)$xPolitics and government 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCommunity activists 615 0$aCommunity activists 615 0$aUrban policy 615 0$aUrban policy 615 0$aProgressivism (United States politics) 676 $a320.9744/6109048 700 $aClavel$b Pierre$01047411 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459675903321 996 $aActivists in City Hall$92474992 997 $aUNINA