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Glaab, Charles Nelson was born on December 19, 1927 in b Williston, North Dakota, United States. Son of Reuben and Betty (Nelson) Glaab.
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Kansas City was only one of several trading centers along the Missouri river in the mid-nineteenth century. And not the largest at that. But it expanded rapidly into the region's leading commercial city while nearby towns showed only moderate growth or were absorbed by their suddenly urban neighbor. Why did Kansas City take off while the others stayed behind? Kansas City got the railroads, says Charles Glaab. But major rail lines did not merge in Kansas City by happenstance. In this classic urban study, Glaab illustrates the crucial role entrepreneurship and boosterism played in determining rail locations and consequently urban-growth patterns. To persuade the railroad companies to connect through Kansas City rather than its rivals--Leavenworth, St. Joseph, Westport, Independence, Lawrence, and Atchison--local boosters, chief among them journalist Robert T. Van Horn, developed better community policies, formed stronger coalitions, and implemented more effective economic development programs than their neighbors. Political maneuvering, individual decision making, and local promotion of internal improvements, as well as greed and corruption, Glaab contends, played key roles in determining the location of this regional metropolis. Extending beyond the borders and idiosyncrasies of one urban area, Glaab also demonstrates how what happened in Kansas City is representative of what happened across the western half of the United States. First published in 1962, it remains highly regarded as a landmark study of the forces that shaped the growth of urban America. In this edition, Glaab has included a new preface explaining the development of this study and its relation to the literature that has appeared over the last thirty years.
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Glaab, Charles Nelson was born on December 19, 1927 in b Williston, North Dakota, United States. Son of Reuben and Betty (Nelson) Glaab.
BPh, University North Dakota, 1951. Master of Arts, University North Dakota, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, University Missouri, 1958.
Research associate history Kansas City project University Chicago, 1956-1958. From instructor to assistant professor history Kansas State University, 1958-1960. From associate professor to professor history University Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1960-1968.
Director urban history section Wisconsin History Society, 1960-1963. Professor history University Toledo, since 1968. Director Fox Valley research project Wisconsin History Society, 1963-1964.
Member Milwaukee Landmarks Commission, 1965-1968, Toledo Landmark Committee, 1968-1970, Ohio History Site Preservation Board, 1979-1981.
(Kansas City was only one of several trading centers along...)
(Kansas City was only one of several trading centers along...)
(Urban Studies, American History & Studies, Architecture)
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Served with Army of the United States, 1946-1948. Member Organization American Historians, American History Association, Urban History Association, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Mary Ellen Anderson, November 5, 1949. Children— Martha Ann, John Reuben.