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
Daniel Elazar
-This is the third and final work in a sequence begun in 1970--a
comparative study of medium-sized Midwestern metropolitan areas to
learn how local governance evolves over time. Daniel Elazar, now
deceased, was the lead researcher, assisted by colleagues in the
Center for the Study of Federalism. These communities, which are
briefly profiled, are now part of the -rurban-cybernetic frontier-
of cultural, economic, and technological change that challenges
their capability for self-government... This is a competent study
overall, a counterpoint to the -regime- concept common in the study
of urban politics. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division
undergraduate collections and above.- --W. C. Johnson, Choice
"This is the third and final work in a sequence begun in 1970--a
comparative study of medium-sized Midwestern metropolitan areas to
learn how local governance evolves over time. Daniel Elazar, now
deceased, was the lead researcher, assisted by colleagues in the
Center for the Study of Federalism. These communities, which are
briefly profiled, are now part of the "rurban-cybernetic frontier"
of cultural, economic, and technological change that challenges
their capability for self-government... This is a competent study
overall, a counterpoint to the "regime" concept common in the study
of urban politics. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division
undergraduate collections and above." --W. C. Johnson, Choice
"This is the third and final work in a sequence begun in 1970--a
comparative study of medium-sized Midwestern metropolitan areas to
learn how local governance evolves over time. Daniel Elazar, now
deceased, was the lead researcher, assisted by colleagues in the
Center for the Study of Federalism. These communities, which are
briefly profiled, are now part of the "rurban-cybernetic frontier"
of cultural, economic, and technological change that challenges
their capability for self-government... This is a competent study
overall, a counterpoint to the "regime" concept common in the study
of urban politics. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division
undergraduate collections and above." --W. C. Johnson, Choice
"This is the third and final work in a sequence begun in 1970--a
comparative study of medium-sized Midwestern metropolitan areas to
learn how local governance evolves over time. Daniel Elazar, now
deceased, was the lead researcher, assisted by colleagues in the
Center for the Study of Federalism. These communities, which are
briefly profiled, are now part of the "rurban-cybernetic frontier"
of cultural, economic, and technological change that challenges
their capability for self-government... This is a competent study
overall, a counterpoint to the "regime" concept common in the study
of urban politics. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division
undergraduate collections and above." --W. C. Johnson, Choice
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