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Deals with the powers and duties of the chief municipal administrative officer in Iowa cities that operate under the mayor-council form of government.
The 2016 election in Iowa City would provide an opportunity that planning faculty have long desired: the opportunity for one of their own to serve as mayor. In this new book, former Iowa City Mayor and Professor Emeritus James A. Throgmorton provides readers a sense of what democratically-elected city council members and mayors in the United States do and what it feels like to occupy and enact those roles. He does so by telling a set of “practice stories” focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on what he, a retired planning professor at the University of Iowa, experienced and learned as a council member from 2012 through 2019 and, simultaneously, as mayor from 2016 through 2019. The book proposes a practical, action-oriented theory about how city futures are being (and can be) shaped, showing that storytelling of various kinds plays a very important but poorly understood role in the co-crafting process, and demonstrating that skillful use of ethically-sound persuasive storytelling (especially by mayors) can improve our collective capacity to create better places. The book documents efforts to alleviate race-related inequities, increase the supply of affordable housing, adopt an ambitious climate action plan, improve relationships between city government and diverse marginalized communities, pursue more inclusive and sustainable land development codes/policies, and more. It will be of great interest to urban planning faculty and students and elected officials looking to collaboratively craft better cities for the future.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... commission government in iowa: the des moines plan By Benjamin F. Shambaugh, Ph.d., Professor of Political Science, State University of Iowa; Superintendent, State Historical Society of Iowa. Commission government1 in Iowa is a municipal experiment in an interesting field. Indeed, not a little surprise has been expressed that this state, which is still generally characterized as an agricultural and stock-raising commonwealth, should have given birth to a plan of municipal reform that within a brief period of three years promises to play an important role in the evolution of city government in the United States. The social and political conditions of Iowa have for the most part been sane and normal; and the people, although progressive, are as a whole neither extreme in their views nor radical in their reforms. In 1910 the population of the state numbered 2,224,771 persons, of whom 1,117,490 lived in the incorporated towns and cities, which for purposes of state legislation are classified as (a) cities of the first class, having a population of 15,000 or over, (b) cities of the second class, having a population between 2,000 and 15,000, and (c) towns, having a population under 2,000. There are also a few special charter cities--so-called from the fact that they operate under special charters granted by the legislature prior to the adoption of the Constitution of 1857. In 1910 there were, in addition to the 7 cities which had adopted commission government, 4 cities of the first class, 88 cities of the second class, 725 towns, and 5 special charter cities. Moreover, there are in Iowa no really large cities--the largest being Des Moines with a population which does not exceed 90, ooo.2 Nor has the government of the incorporated municipalities..