Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka

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By exploring and comparing North The us’s, Russia’s, and Japan’s “second cities” of a century ago―Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka― Second Metropolis discloses the extent to which social fragmentation, continuously viewed as an obstacle to democratic development, if truth be told fostered pluralistic public policies.

Such policies are explored through six case studies―the politics of street railways and charter reform in Chicago, adult education and housing in Moscow, and harbor revitalization and poverty alleviation in Osaka―that illustrate how even the ones with massive political and economic power were stymied by the complexity in their communities. Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka, even though the products of very different nations and cultures, nonetheless shared crucial experience of inclusive politics all through an era of abnormal growth and social diversity. The success of all three cities, which went well past mere survival, rested on a distinctive political resource: pragmatic pluralism.


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