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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Form follows function," architect Louis Sullivan once said, but in today's literature, function more often follows form...
...solving them can be difficult. City bureaucracy often has a life of its own, with each city agency performing its own particular function in its own particular way. An outsider trying to get anything done in a city government must clear a path through an administrative jungle simply to understand what is going...
...describes her discovery that much of the council's business is simply a matter of form--her fellow councillors approve virtually any order she brings them, as long as it does not involve money. Attempts to deal with the semiautonomous Redevelopment Authority teach her the three I's that often dominate city administration--inertia, indolence and incompetence...
Despite Ackermann's efforts to discipline the police force--eventually, the whole force was sent back to the police academy for a week-long refresher course--she writes with a good deal of sympathy for the officers. She suggests that the police are often ill-equipped to deal with the rage that society creates in incidents like the Roosevelt Towers riots. Police did not make the problem, she writes, they were simply a part...
...whole, "You the Mayor?" works well. It provides splendid portraits of city officials--particularly the giant Ed Crane and the often preposterous Al Vellucci, the independent Independent. It explains clearly and eloquently the problems of being an elected official in a city like Cambridge, where councillors have "accountability without authority...