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PDF On Jan 1, 1998, Robert Bruce Fairbanks and others published For the City as a Whole: Planning, Politics . Book · January 1998 with 15 Reads. How we measure 'reads'

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Can the public interest be clearly identified and protected? What role should government play in the lives of ordinary citizens? These are questions currently engaging policy makers and the general public as well as scholars in a range of disciplines. The provision and financing of urban public goods is one arena in which such questions have arisen

For the City as a Whole: Planning, Politics, and the Public Interests in Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. Fairbanks contends that these urban problem solvers sought to guide development practice in a way that addressed the unitary "public interest" rather than the collective "various publics' interest;" his text examines the discourse of the city's business-civic leadership that reflects such a refined distinction.

For the City as a Whol. by ROBERT B. FAIRBANKS. The book also traces the decline of the city-as-a-whole discourse since the 1950s and explores how a new notion of the public interest reshaped the city's planning and political activities

For the City as a Whol. The book also traces the decline of the city-as-a-whole discourse since the 1950s and explores how a new notion of the public interest reshaped the city's planning and political activities.

By Robert B. Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series

By Robert B. Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series. Fairbanks's thesis is that Dallas leaders were guided by the idea that their city was composed entirely of interrelated pieces, a point made clear by their use of the analogy of the connectedness of the various parts of the human body to explain how specific issues like the need for flood control or public housing in one area influenced the health of.

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Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 318. Maps, bibliography, index. 95 (hardcover), Wilson, William H. Hamilton Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

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The series examines the history of urban life and the development of the urban landscape through works that place social, economic, and political issues in the intellectual and cultural context of their times. Specific areas of interest include the history of city planning; the history of neighborhoods and communities; suburbs and suburbanization; landscape history and the history of urban design; the urban infrastructure; ethnic groups, blacks, and women in the city; and urban regionalism