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Activists in City Hall: The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago

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In 1983, Boston and Chicago elected progressive mayors with deep roots among community activists. Taking place of job as the Reagan administration used to be withdrawing federal aid from local governments, Boston’s Raymond Flynn and Chicago’s Harold Washington implemented major policies that would live much longer than them. More than reforming governments, they changed the substance of what the government used to be looking to do: above all, to effect a measure of redistribution of resources to the cities’ poor and working classes and away from hollow goals of “growth” as measured by the accumulation of skyscrapers. In Boston, Flynn moderated an place of job development boom at the same time as securing millions of dollars for reasonably priced housing. In Chicago, Washington implemented concrete measures to save manufacturing jobs, against the tide of national policy and trends.

Activists in City Hall examines how both mayors achieved their objectives by incorporating neighborhood activists as a new organizational force in devising, debating, implementing, and shaping policy. Based in extensive archival research enriched by details and insights gleaned from hours of interviews with key figures in every administration and every city’s activist community, Pierre Clavel argues that key to the success of every mayor were a lot of factors: productive contacts between city hall and neighborhood activists, strong social bases for their agendas, administrative innovations, and alternative visions of the city. Comparing the experiences of Boston and Chicago with those of other up to date progressive cities―Hartford, Berkeley, Madison, Santa Cruz, Santa Monica, Burlington, and San Francisco―Activists in City Hall provides a new account of progressive urban politics throughout the Reagan era and offers many valuable lessons for policymakers, city planners, and progressive political activists.

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