Keith D Revell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1528830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith D Revell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith D |
| FAMILY NAME | Revell |
| SIGNATURE | REVELL K D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3730-8100 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Snet,” Our Man in Miami
South Florida developed as an urban gambling resort center that posed both cultural and political challenges to the traditional southern values that animated the state’s approach to regulating vice. This article examines the conflicts over vice tourism in South Florida by focusing on the relationship between Governor Spessard Holland and former Miami Beach Mayor Louis “Snet” Snedigar. Snedigar became Holland’s undercover informant when the govern…
Getting Inequality Right
This essay draws on Zunz’s major works to show how the reformulation of the American Promise between, roughly, 1870 and 1960 established a new relationship between inequality and solidarity. I argue that Zunz’s analysis demonstrates that the emerging white-collar middle class responded to the crises of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries with three cultural innovations— recodifying status, engineering social harmony, and formalizing…
Regulating Resort Revelry
Miami Beach was the nation’s premier winter resort between the 1930s and the 1950s. The city attracted a diverse crowd of visitors, some interested in a peaceful respite from the frigid north, others drawn by the drinking, dancing, and musical entertainment offered by its many bars and nightclubs. As part of an elaborate effort to sustain the city’s lively symbiotic urban leisure-services economy, the Miami Beach City Council addressed three type…
From Urban Citizens to Ocean Liners
This article analyzes changes in hotel urbanism in Miami Beach. Most of the Art Deco hotels built between 1935 and 1942 were “urban citizens”—visually integrated into an ensemble of architecturally similar buildings and economically integrated into a symbiotic leisure economy where urban hostels, nightclubs, and luxury retailers combined to offer a diverse collection of tourists a vacation of “accessible glamour” that made Miami Beach distinctive…
How States Shaped Postwar America
Nicholas Dagen Bloom convincingly argues that assertive state governments decisively shaped postwar urban America, mostly for the good. Prompted by the failures of federal policy, an unfolding urban crisis, and pleas from fragmenting metropolitan areas, activist governors, both Democratic and Republican, became “operational liberals” as they pursued an “ideologically coherent” effort to aid cities in extending the legacy of the New Deal (pp. 9, 2…
God's waiting room
New York Exposed
The Lexow Committee, headed by New York state senator Clarence Lexow, a German American Republican from Nyack, held a series of spectacular hearings into the New York City Police Department between March and December 1894. Closely covered by an aggressive press corps, the committee's seventy-eight sessions and 678 witnesses produced the most damaging revelations in the department's history, exposing a deeply entrenched system of police blackmail …
Micro-Incentives and Municipal Behavior
How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy
Sarah S. Elkind argues that the intense interest-group politics of local, regional, and national environmental policy during the mid-twentieth century demonstrate the disproportionate (though not hegemonic) influence of business organizations along with increasing criticism of federal power—a combination she subsumes under the rubric of localism. Departing from Los Angeles in the 1920s and ending in Washington, D.C., in the 1950s, Elkind analyzes…
Building Gotham
"In this far-ranging study, Keith D. Revell shows how experts in engineering, law, architecture, public health, public finance, and planning learned to cope with the daunting challenges of collective living on this mammouth scale. Engineers applied new technologies to build railroad tunnels under the Hudson River and construct aqueducts to quench the thirst of a city on the verge of water famine. Sanitarians attempted to clean up a harbor choked …
Creating a Positive Future for a Minority Community
Overtown, once the center of African American life in Miami, lost 40% of its population when Interstate 95 was built through the heart of the community in the 1960s. Even though a variety of non-policy factors played a role in the decline of the area, expressway construction and urban renewal greatly accelerated the process. Just as important, efforts to mitigate the impact of the highway were delayed for many years, thus magnifying the negative …
Cooperation, Capture, and Autonomy
“Historically, geographically, and commercially New York and the industrial district in the northern part of the state of New Jersey constitute a single community,” declared the Interstate Commerce Commission in the New York Harbor case in 1917. In spite of that overwhelming fact, the railroads in the port region had never worked cooperatively to manage New York harbor. Instead, competition led them to invest vast sums in individual terminal faci…
The Road to Euclid v. Ambler
“We must reckon first with the fact that Americans take for granted their right to do on their own property anything they please regardless of their neighbors,” Edward Bassett told his compatriots in the New York City zoning movement in 1913.Appended Report, Zoning and Districting, Minutes of the Heights of Buildings Commission, June 9, 1913, Heights of Buildings Commission, New York City Municipal Archives, Box 2507. Bassett, who has come to be …
Building New York's Sewers
Offering a unique perspective on the conditions, constraints, and concerns of city government during the first half of the nineteenth century, Goldman investigates the links between decision making and the contemporary notions on disease, the environment, and city responsibility. As new theories on the transmission of disease heightened concerns over public health and urban sanitation, physicians and professional engineers pressured the city to p…
Micro-Incentives and Municipal Behavior
Creating a Positive Future for a Minority Community
Overtown, once the center of African American life in Miami, lost 40% of its population when Interstate 95 was built through the heart of the community in the 1960s. Even though a variety of non-policy factors played a role in the decline of the area, expressway construction and urban renewal greatly accelerated the process. Just as important, efforts to mitigate the impact of the highway were delayed for many years, thus magnifying the negative …
The Road to Euclid v. Ambler
“We must reckon first with the fact that Americans take for granted their right to do on their own property anything they please regardless of their neighbors,” Edward Bassett told his compatriots in the New York City zoning movement in 1913.Appended Report, Zoning and Districting, Minutes of the Heights of Buildings Commission, June 9, 1913, Heights of Buildings Commission, New York City Municipal Archives, Box 2507. Bassett, who has come to be …
New York Exposed
The Lexow Committee, headed by New York state senator Clarence Lexow, a German American Republican from Nyack, held a series of spectacular hearings into the New York City Police Department between March and December 1894. Closely covered by an aggressive press corps, the committee's seventy-eight sessions and 678 witnesses produced the most damaging revelations in the department's history, exposing a deeply entrenched system of police blackmail …
Cooperation, Capture, and Autonomy
“Historically, geographically, and commercially New York and the industrial district in the northern part of the state of New Jersey constitute a single community,” declared the Interstate Commerce Commission in the New York Harbor case in 1917. In spite of that overwhelming fact, the railroads in the port region had never worked cooperatively to manage New York harbor. Instead, competition led them to invest vast sums in individual terminal faci…
Building New York's Sewers
Offering a unique perspective on the conditions, constraints, and concerns of city government during the first half of the nineteenth century, Goldman investigates the links between decision making and the contemporary notions on disease, the environment, and city responsibility. As new theories on the transmission of disease heightened concerns over public health and urban sanitation, physicians and professional engineers pressured the city to p…
The Road to Euclid v. Ambler
“We must reckon first with the fact that Americans take for granted their right to do on their own property anything they please regardless of their neighbors,” Edward Bassett told his compatriots in the New York City zoning movement in 1913.Appended Report, Zoning and Districting, Minutes of the Heights of Buildings Commission, June 9, 1913, Heights of Buildings Commission, New York City Municipal Archives, Box 2507. Bassett, who has come to be …
Cooperation, Capture, and Autonomy
“Historically, geographically, and commercially New York and the industrial district in the northern part of the state of New Jersey constitute a single community,” declared the Interstate Commerce Commission in the New York Harbor case in 1917. In spite of that overwhelming fact, the railroads in the port region had never worked cooperatively to manage New York harbor. Instead, competition led them to invest vast sums in individual terminal faci…
Creating a Positive Future for a Minority Community
Overtown, once the center of African American life in Miami, lost 40% of its population when Interstate 95 was built through the heart of the community in the 1960s. Even though a variety of non-policy factors played a role in the decline of the area, expressway construction and urban renewal greatly accelerated the process. Just as important, efforts to mitigate the impact of the highway were delayed for many years, thus magnifying the negative …
Building Gotham
"In this far-ranging study, Keith D. Revell shows how experts in engineering, law, architecture, public health, public finance, and planning learned to cope with the daunting challenges of collective living on this mammouth scale. Engineers applied new technologies to build railroad tunnels under the Hudson River and construct aqueducts to quench the thirst of a city on the verge of water famine. Sanitarians attempted to clean up a harbor choked …
How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy
Sarah S. Elkind argues that the intense interest-group politics of local, regional, and national environmental policy during the mid-twentieth century demonstrate the disproportionate (though not hegemonic) influence of business organizations along with increasing criticism of federal power—a combination she subsumes under the rubric of localism. Departing from Los Angeles in the 1920s and ending in Washington, D.C., in the 1950s, Elkind analyzes…
Micro-Incentives and Municipal Behavior
New York Exposed
The Lexow Committee, headed by New York state senator Clarence Lexow, a German American Republican from Nyack, held a series of spectacular hearings into the New York City Police Department between March and December 1894. Closely covered by an aggressive press corps, the committee's seventy-eight sessions and 678 witnesses produced the most damaging revelations in the department's history, exposing a deeply entrenched system of police blackmail …
God's waiting room
How States Shaped Postwar America
Nicholas Dagen Bloom convincingly argues that assertive state governments decisively shaped postwar urban America, mostly for the good. Prompted by the failures of federal policy, an unfolding urban crisis, and pleas from fragmenting metropolitan areas, activist governors, both Democratic and Republican, became “operational liberals” as they pursued an “ideologically coherent” effort to aid cities in extending the legacy of the New Deal (pp. 9, 2…
Regulating Resort Revelry
Miami Beach was the nation’s premier winter resort between the 1930s and the 1950s. The city attracted a diverse crowd of visitors, some interested in a peaceful respite from the frigid north, others drawn by the drinking, dancing, and musical entertainment offered by its many bars and nightclubs. As part of an elaborate effort to sustain the city’s lively symbiotic urban leisure-services economy, the Miami Beach City Council addressed three type…
From Urban Citizens to Ocean Liners
This article analyzes changes in hotel urbanism in Miami Beach. Most of the Art Deco hotels built between 1935 and 1942 were “urban citizens”—visually integrated into an ensemble of architecturally similar buildings and economically integrated into a symbiotic leisure economy where urban hostels, nightclubs, and luxury retailers combined to offer a diverse collection of tourists a vacation of “accessible glamour” that made Miami Beach distinctive…
Getting Inequality Right
This essay draws on Zunz’s major works to show how the reformulation of the American Promise between, roughly, 1870 and 1960 established a new relationship between inequality and solidarity. I argue that Zunz’s analysis demonstrates that the emerging white-collar middle class responded to the crises of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries with three cultural innovations— recodifying status, engineering social harmony, and formalizing…
Snet,” Our Man in Miami
South Florida developed as an urban gambling resort center that posed both cultural and political challenges to the traditional southern values that animated the state’s approach to regulating vice. This article examines the conflicts over vice tourism in South Florida by focusing on the relationship between Governor Spessard Holland and former Miami Beach Mayor Louis “Snet” Snedigar. Snedigar became Holland’s undercover informant when the govern…
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