Second Metropolis : Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka

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By comparing North America's, Russia's, and Japan's 'second cities' - Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka - Second Metropolis discloses the extent to which social fragmentation, frequently viewed as an obstacle to democratic development, actually fostered a 'pragmatic pluralism' that nurtured pluralistic public policies.