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City Government: Run It Like a Business or Like a Home? |
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CSU’s Camilla Stivers at The City Club of
Cleveland |
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CLEVELAND, OH—Dr. Camilla Stivers, distinguished scholar of public
administration, Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State
University, will explore two different styles of city management at
noon on Monday, March 27, 2006, at The City Club of Cleveland.
At the turn of the 20th century, tides of change swept over America.
Millions of immigrants from Eastern Europe and Southern Italy poured
into cities to work in factories and sweatshops. Need for municipal
services like transportation, health care, education, and sanitation
skyrocketed. Many shared the view that cities were not meeting the
challenge, but two distinctive visions emerged about the nature of the
problem and what to do about it.
For one group, who saw the city as a corporation, the problem was poor
management. These reformers advocated ways of improving fundamental
elements of governing such as budgeting, record-keeping, and personnel
procedures. Their solution was “Run the city like a business!” For the
other group, who saw the city as a place for people to live, the
problem was the absence of basic services like clean water, parks,
clinics, and garbage collection. This group saw governing as a lot
like housekeeping. Their solution was “Run the city like a home!”
What do the reforms of 100 years ago have to teach us about municipal
governance in the transformed urban social conditions of today? Is it
time to consider a governance model once marginalized by the
predominant business model of our country’s progressive period?
From 1997 to 2002, Stivers held the Albert A. Levin chair in urban
studies and public service. She is the author of Bureau Men,
Settlement Women: Constructing Public Administration in the
Progressive Era. Before receiving her Ph.D. in 1987 from Virginia
Tech, Stivers spent nearly twenty years working in urban
community-based nonprofit organizations.
Tickets for this City Club Special Program are $15 for members and $25
for non-members. Lunch is included. Reservations are required at least
24 hours in advance of the event. They can be purchased by calling The
City Club at 216.621.0082 or visiting the website at www.cityclub.org. |
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