It was 1805 when the first city consolidation was approved of by a public referendum. The city of New Orleans and the county Orleans Parish merged to form one consolidated government. The news of the merger spread throughout the United States, the event influenced residents of cities and counties to pursue the same change in government in their areas. And so a series of city consolidation were approved of by a public referendum in major metropolitan areas including Boston-Suffolk County (1821), Philadelphia-Philadelphia County (1854), San Francisco-San Francisco County (1856), New York City and five counties (1874) (Murphy, 2012).
The desire of residents in their respective areas to pursue a by a city consolidation means more than just
a change in local government. First, a city-county consolidated government is a formal joining of a city or multiple cities with a county to form one government. They are numerous benefactors that would draw the attention of residents dissatisfied with their current form of government. Once the merger between a city and county occur, the newly merged government services improve because of the increase in efficiency due to the elimination of government inefficiencies associated with overlapping or duplicated city and county services (Cities). Not only will services improve but the planning methods of the merged government this improves cooperation with the private sector and business developers. The process becomes less tedious when gathering codes, ordinances, and requirements for doing business in the consolidated area (Murphy, 2012). Finally, accountability from consolidated governments increases and become transparent to residents because of the merged government. In conclusion, they are many benefits government and counties can experience if they merge. However, with that being said many referenda’s for consolidated governments do lose to a number of reasons including the possible reduced powers of officials and government employees. As of the year 2016, “the Census Bureau identifies only 34 city-county consolidated governments out of a total of 3,069 county governments” (Cities)” References
There are many examples of cities reforming itself over time, one significant example is Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. More than a hundred years after the discovery of gold that drew thousands of migrants to Vancouver, the city has changed a lot, and so does one of its oldest community: Downtown Eastside. Began as a small town for workers that migrants frequently, after these workers moved away with all the money they have made, Downtown Eastside faced many hardships and changes. As a city, Vancouver gave much support to improve the area’s living quality and economics, known as a process called gentrification. But is this process really benefiting everyone living in Downtown Eastside? The answer is no. Gentrification towards DTES(Downtown Eastside) did not benefit the all the inhabitants of the area. Reasons are the new rent price of the area is much higher than before the gentrification, new businesses are not community-minded, and the old culture and lifestyle of the DTES is getting erased by the new residents.
In the twentieth century, governmental agencies and private developers acting together cleared out the central city to make room for the federal government. The government was able to do this through its unique economic and legislative relationship to the city, and through a heightened symbolic architectural and verbal language which supported its valorization. The symbolic language and the government's dominance in the local economy are mutually supportive. Symbolism removes ownership of the city from local residents and makes it national. It also masks the federal government's failure to prove economically beneficial to all sections of the city and to all its races and classes, as a 'trickle down' theory of dominant economies argues. Because of the government's importance in the local economy, its symbolic self-representation goes unchallenged.
The arrival of immigrants triggered a rapid urbanization of the major cities in the United States. New buildings were built to keep up with the city’s population increase, new modes of transportation were built in order to get across the city faster, and settlement house were created The immigrants rushed into cities causing skyscrapers and tenements to be build. As a result of limited land, businesses decide to build the business up instead of out. In addition, many of the immigrants were poor, so the tenement was invented. A tenement is a building full of small apartments that would house many families. Document two shows an immigrant family living in one of these tenements. In addition, to changes in building there were also changes
States will also compete in attracting residents as people will shift to the state that favors them mostly. As discussed in our textbook, “Scholars continue to debate the effects of the evolution of federalism on civil society: Some argue that a strong national government does not result in weakening of community associations, while others believe that it does” (Cropf,
In Rhoda Halperin’s Practicing Community: Class, Culture, and Power in an Urban Neighborhood, over six years of anthropological research was conducted in the East End community of Cincinnati, Ohio. This book presented how East Enders were wanting to preserve their community as it was subjected to sudden changes, such as urban and economic developments. Halperin included narratives and viewpoints from various East Enders in order to voice the community and their concerns, additionally allowing readers to envision how the community was progressing through the variations of development. In conclusion of reading Practicing Community, I was able to fully understand how topics learned in class correlated with the purpose of the book.
The decision to do away with the long-standing community was reflected in academic studies and city-commissioned planning reports as a means t...
Politics or politicking is a game that is more ostensible and reserved for the political arena; however, metaphorically, much of the political discourse can also be found within organizations. Politics in organizations, then, is design for groups to reconcile differences between interests, conflicts, and power (Morgan, 2006). The case study to be analyze (Cutting Back at City Hall) is one that illustrates all three aspects of interests, conflicts, and power as the City of Smithville, the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the International Association of Firefighters (IAF), and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) deliberate the city’s proposed budget.
“Could suburbs prosper independently of central cities? Probably. But would they prosper even more if they were a part of a better-integrated metropolis? The answer is almost certainly yes.” (p. 66)
DETROIT, known as the "Automotive Capital of the World," is the largest city in the state of Michigan. The city sits at the heart of an official three-county metropolitan region comprising Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties.
to fund public programs or make general improvements throughout the community. Urban sprawl is expensive not only on people’s wallets, but is taxing on their health, the environment, their relationships. The.. After examining all of the problems associated with urban sprawl it is hard not to question how America lost the genuine communities of old and adopted the new community of
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In Ernest W. Burgess’s “The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project,” (1925), the author delves deep into the processes that go into the construction of a modern city or urban environment. Burgess lists its following qualities: skyscrapers, the department store, the newspaper, shopping malls, etc. (p. 154). Burgess also includes social work as being part of a modern urban environment. This is supported by his construction model based on concentric circles that divided Chicago into five zones. The first was called a center loop meant for a business district. Secondly, there was an area for business and light manufacture. Third, there was a “zone for working men’s homes” (p. 156). The fourth is the residential area of high-class apartment buildings. The fifth is where suburban houses are located.
...to. The notion is rather consistent to the already established idea that all local governments’ functions are and should be provided by either a municipal government or a county government. Without the procedures for city-initiated annexation and annexation powers, most of the urban services desired by and required for citizens would have to be provided by Guilford County. Lastly, as the local level of government in North Carolina, almost all governmental responsibilities have been vested in municipalities and county governments’ which are two types of general-purpose government units. Expenditures of local government units in North Carolina are made through cities and counties, whereas in many other states special districts are much more important. The result from this is that North Carolina’s urban areas do not have the likelihood of overlapping units elsewhere.
Cities all over the world are developing. As war ended in 1942, a significant number of people move to the city because they want to improve life. This urbanization process is causing a number of problems and should be met by sustainable development policies. In the beginning, it is important to know the definition of sustainable development. There are some definitions for sustainable development, but simply they say that sustainable development is a development which using resources now and preserving them for future generations (Adams, 1999, p.137). This concept has been agreed internationally at a Rio Conference in 1992 to be implemented by all government policies which mostly known as “Agenda 21” principles (Adams, 1999, p.141). This paper will show that traffic jams and housing problems caused by urbanization can be met by sustainable development policies. The structure of this paper will first explain the situation that leads to traffic jams and housing problems. Next, it will elaborate the sustainable development solutions, implications for the solutions, and evaluations how effective the sustainable development solutions solved the problems.