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Our Cities Awake : Notes on Municipal Activities and Administration (Classic Reprint) by Morris Llewellyn Cooke

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Author: Morris Llewellyn Cooke
Page Count: 442 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Type: PDF
ISBN: 9781331529705
File size: 36 Mb
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Excerpt from Our Cities Awake: Notes on Municipal Activities and Administration The problem of city administration in this country is so largely in flux that any book dealing with it must necessarily be only suggestive. The trend toward expert service in this field is unmistakable. But that our various municipal activities are in the hands of self-trained or untrained men is almost as true to-day as it was a generation ago. Nothing has been developed to the point where it may be considered a finished product. The Department of Public Works of the City of Philadelphia, during the four years of the administration of Rudolph Blankenburg as Mayor, when the author was its director, employed over 4,000 men and women. The building and maintenance of roads and streets, sewers and bridges; the filtering and distribution of the water supply; the construction and maintenance of public buildings; the oversight of all public lighting; and many other minor functions were entrusted to its care. In the following pages an effort has been made to record informally some of the steps taken to raise the work of the department to a higher level. During the period covered over $45,000,000 was expended under the direct supervision of men who recognized few of the trammels of those whose lives have been spent in the municipal service. In the preparation of the manuscript the freest use has been made of material originally prepared for official reports and other documents issued while the author was an occupant of the Philadelphia City Hall. It has seemed wise to free the text from individual credits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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