Lake effects : a history of urban policy making in Cleveland, 1825-1929 / Ronald R. Weiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiner, Ronald R.

Series:

Urban life and urban landscape series

Urban life and urban landscape

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban policy--Ohio--Cleveland--History--19th century.

Urban policy.

Urban policy--Ohio--Cleveland--History--20th century.

History.

Cleveland (Ohio)--Politics and government--19th century.

Cleveland (Ohio).

Cleveland (Ohio)--Politics and government--20th century.

Ohio--Cleveland.

Physical Description:

xii, 271 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2005]

Summary:

Lake Effects is a history of urban policy making in the large Midwestern industrial city of Cleveland, Ohio. Urban policy making requires goal setting in four critical areas: economic development, urban growth, services, and wealth redistribution. Ronald Weiner shows how urban policy was conceived and implemented by the local governing elites, or regimes, between 1825 and 1929. Each regime-Merchant, Populist, Corporate, and Realty-set policy goals in the four areas; set priorities among the goals; and used their power, public and private, to guide the city toward these ends. Each regime dominated policy making for at least twenty years, and the successes and failures of each regime contribute to our understanding of how Cleveland became the city that it is today.

The successes of the Merchant Regime's economic development policy made Cleveland's industrialization possible. The urban growth policy of the Corporate Regime built the downtown civic center and University Circle. However, the Populist, Corporate, and Realty regimes' failures to plan for Cleveland's economic future helped set in motion the declining economic fortunes so harshly in evidence today, and the triumph of the expansionist Realty Regime's urban growth policy promoted heedless suburban development at the expense of the central business district and inner city.

Contents:

Introduction: Regimes and Urban Policy: An Overview 1

Part 1 The Merchant Regime, 1825-1878

Chapter 1 Merchant Regime Urban Policy, 1825-1878 11

Part 2 The Populist Regime, 1878-1895

Chapter 2 Ideals and Policy Making Institutions 37

Chapter 3 Economic Development and Urban Growth Devalued 48

Chapter 4 The Realignment of Policy Priorities 65

Part 3 The Corporate Regime, 1895-1919

Chapter 5 Ideals, Institutions, and Policies 85

Chapter 6 Urban Growth Policy I: Land Use Controls at the Periphery 102

Chapter 7 Urban Growth Policy II: Land Use Controls at the Center 116

Chapter 8 The Professional Ideal Triumphant 133

Part 4 The Realty Regime, 1919-1929

Chapter 9 Origins of the Realty Regime 153

Chapter 10 Getting Down to Business: Economic Development and the Financing of Urban Growth Policy 171

Chapter 11 Land Use Controls in an Era of Changing City Structure 187

Chapter 12 The Balkanized Metropolis: The Realty Regime Victorious 202

Conclusion: Paths to the Present: A Post Mortem 214

Appendix A Mayors of Cleveland 221

Appendix B Annexations by Regime 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-261) and index.

ISBN:

0814209890

0814290647

OCLC:

57283832