Mediating Organizations, Private Government, and Civil Society : Disinvestment Through the Preservation of Wealth in Cleveland, Ohio (1950-1990)

This study uses nonprofit community organizations in the Union Miles, University Circle and Midtown Corridor neighborhoods of Cleveland, Ohio to reflect from the bottom-up community organizaing practiced not simply by grassroots property owners, but by the leadership of resource-rich private institutions, business owners in a major North American city.