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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"boosterism"”.
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The political geography of annexation--Roanoke, Virginia
… and relative importance of four issues -- civic boosterism and community autonomy, public services and planning, financial considerations, and race-related considerations -- were examined and analyzed as critical factors in Roanoke, Virginia's historic use of annexation. Particular attention was …
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Streams: Small Jewish communities on the banks of the Ohio.
… the notion of "progress" central to small-town boosterism.
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The relationship between perception of leadership OCB and employee OCB
… initiative, personal industry and loyal boosterism. The results of this study indicate that peer rating is the most suitable source in rating employee OCB. Hence, peer rating was employed to measure employee OCB in examining the relationship between LOCB and EOCB. This is consistent with …
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Telling the Truth: How Journalists Believe a Story is Told Truthfully
… Critics of civic journalism say it is boosterism while supporters say it leads to a better community through the active involvement of the news organization in civic activities. Traditional journalism rejects community involvement in favor of objectivity but critics say it neglects …
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The Ghost of Olmsted: Nature, History & Urban Park Restoration in Boston's Emerald Necklace
… the upper-class economic and cultural agendas of boosterism, real-estate speculation, and cultural assimilation.</p> <p>When we look at the nineteenth-century political economic context in which Olmsted worked and compare it to the late-twentieth/early-twenty-first century political economic …
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The face of empire: the cultural production of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and California, 1904–1916
… and civilization. San Francisco’s imperial boosterism also served local needs, as the city used the PPIE to stage a renaissance from the cataclysmic 1906 earthquake and fire and position itself as an imperial metropole on a global stage, a vital outpost on the Pacific Rim. San Francisco …
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"""Empty chairs, broken lives"": The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum"
… Museum was part of a longer-term effort of civic boosterism."
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"Magic City" class, community, and reform in Roanoke, Virginia, 1882-1912
The "Magic City" of Roanoke, Virginia, the fastest growing urban area in the South from 1880 to 1890, exemplified everything that New South boosters claimed to have wanted. The prototypical New South city, Roanoke emerged as an extreme version of all that was supposed to remedy the South's …
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Promoting Positivity: Securing Memphis's Image in Times of Crisis
Situating the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Memphis's long history shows how concern over Memphis's national reputation influenced how city leaders dealt with crisis. Throughout its history, Memphis government officials and business leaders promoted Memphis as a good city to do business, free from …
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Shaping the City from Below: Urban Planning and Citizens' Battle for Control in Roanoke, Virginia, 1907-1928
In 2017, urban planners in Roanoke, Virginia, created a plan to construct a new public space that will honor the city's first professional city planner, John Nolen. Nolen is now considered a founder of the urban planning profession in the United States. Roanoke officials hope to celebrate the …