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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

Martin V. Melosi
Martin V. Melosi
Affiliation:
University of Houston
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Extract

Social scientists Lawrence J. R. Herson and John M. Bolland describe the connection between the city as government and the city as an urban place in terms of “rules that direct and constrain behavior on behalf of the collective good; services that make collective living possible; and money—raised through taxes—that pays the people who enforce the rules and provide city services.”

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Journal of Policy History , Volume 5 , Special Issue 1: Urban Public Policy: Historical Modes and Methods , January 1993 , pp. 1 - 4
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Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1993

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Notes

1. Herson, Lawrence J. R. and Bolland, John M., The Urban Web: Politics, Policy, and Theory (Chicago, 1990), 7.Google Scholar

2. McDonald, Terrence J., The Parameters of Urban Fiscal Policy: Socioeconomic Change and Political Culture in San Francisco, 1860–1906 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1986), 2–3.Google Scholar

3. Ibid., 3.

4. Ibid., 12–13.

5. Mandelbaum, Seymour J., “Urban Pasts and Urban Policies,” ]ournal of Urban History 6 (August 1980): 454.Google Scholar