Activists in City Hall: The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago (Cornell Paperbacks) ebook

by Pierre Clavel

Activists in City Hall, Clavel tells. the story of the progressive activ-. ist-intellectuals who moved into city. halls in 1984 after the election of. Ray Flynn in Boston and Harold. Washington in Chicago.

Activists in City Hall, Clavel tells. politics had moved substantially. to the right with the election of. President Ronald Reagan, but in. a number of large cities the social. movements unleashed in the 1960s. Biography of J. Stitt Wilson (1868 - 1942) illuminating the trajectory of the social movement in America from the Gilded Age to the New Deal. Progressive Housing Policy in the City of Berkeley, California.

Activists in City Hall: The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and .

Activists in City Hall: The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago. In 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. Publisher: Cornell University PressReleased: Feb 15, 2013ISBN: 9780801468513Format: book.

Pierre Clavel It is remarkable that Boston and Chicago produced progressive governments in the 1980s

It is remarkable that Boston and Chicago produced progressive governments in the 1980s. No other large city did. There were several minority mayors, but they did not produce participatory and redistributive reforms to the same degree. The smaller cities described in chapter 2-though important precursors-did not generally face the same challenges or scale of problems.

In 1983, Boston and Chicago elected progressive mayors with deep roots among community activists. Online version: Clavel, Pierre. Activists in City Hall. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010 (OCoLC)762959392.

Pierre Clavel’s book Activists in City Hall: The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago was featured in a November 2, 2010 Boston Globe article by Peter S. Canellos, The Legacy of Boston’s Sandinistas.

Pierre Clavel is Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. Clavel was director of Cornell's Progressive Planning Summer Program from 1979–83, several times director of graduate studies, and department chair from 2001–04.

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In 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.