Business, Democracy, and Progressive Reform in the Redevelopment of Baltimore after the Great Fire of 1904
重新审视进步时代美国城市政府结构改革中商业领袖的角色,通过分析1904年巴尔的摩大火后重建计划的命运,反对简单的善恶二分法,并呼吁基于20世纪城市社会复杂性的道德判断。
The following article reexamines the role of business leaders in the structural reform of American city government during the Progressive Era. In presenting a careful analysis of the fate of redevelopment plans after Baltimore's great 1904 fire, this case study argues against an unsophisticated good guy/bad guy approach to urban and business history. Historians are urged, however, not to abandon attempts to make reasoned moral judgments concerning the consequences of structural reform, but rather to base those efforts on a recognition of the deepening complexity of twentieth-century urban society.