Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Dallas by Patricia Evridge Hill. In this innovative history, Patricia Evridge Hill explores the building of Dallas in the years before business interests rose to such prominence to and discovers that many groups contributed to the development of the modern city. In particular, she looks at the activities of organized labor, women's groups, racial minorities, Populist and socialist radicals, an In this innovative history, Patricia Evridge Hill explores the building of Dallas in the years before business interests rose to such prominence to and discovers that many groups contributed to the development of the modern city.
In particular, she looks at the activities of organized labor, women's groups, racial minorities, Populist and socialist radicals, and progressive reformers - all of whom competed and compromised with local business leaders in the decades before the Great Depression. This research challenges the popular view that business interests have always run Dallas and offers a historically accurate picture of the city's development.
The legacy of pluralism that Hill uncovers shows that Dallas can accommodate dissent and conflict as it moves toward a more inclusive public life. Dallas will be fascinating and important reading for all Texans, as well as for all students of urban development. Paperback , pages. Published January 1st by University of Texas Press.
To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Dallas , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Matthew rated it it was ok Sep 11, Simon Whitaker rated it liked it May 23, Summary In this innovative history, Patricia Evridge Hill explores the building of Dallas in the years before business interests rose to such prominence to and discovers that many groups contributed to the development of the modern city. In particular, she looks at the activities of organized labor, women's groups, racial minorities, Populist and socialist radicals, and progressive reformers - all of whom competed and compromised with local business leaders in the decades before the Great Depression.
This research challenges the popular view that business interests have always run Dallas and offers a historically accurate picture of the city's development. The legacy of pluralism that Hill uncovers shows that Dallas can accommodate dissent and conflict as it moves toward a more inclusive public life.
Dallas will be fascinating and important reading for all Texans, as well as for all students of urban development. Populism and Socialism in Dallas. Labor's Bid for Respectability Pt. The Origins of Single-Option Government. Dallas's War on Labor, Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
View online Borrow Buy Freely available Show 0 more links Related resource Table of contents only at http: Set up My libraries How do I set up "My libraries"? Dallas's proximity to the discovery put it immediately at the center of the nation's petroleum market. Petroleum discoveries in the Permian Basin , the Panhandle , the Gulf Coast , and Oklahoma in the following years further solidified Dallas's position as the hub of the market.
The end of World War II left Dallas seeded with a nexus of communications, engineering, and production talent by companies such as Collins Radio Corporation. Decades later, the telecommunications and information revolutions still drive a large portion of the local economy. The city is sometimes referred to as the heart of " Silicon Prairie " because of a high concentration of telecommunications companies in the region, the epicenter of which lies along the Telecom Corridor in Richardson , a northern suburb of Dallas.
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Texas Instruments , a major manufacturer, employs 10, people at its corporate headquarters and chip plants in Dallas. In the s Dallas was a real estate hotbed, with the increasing metropolitan population bringing with it a demand for new housing and office space. Several of Downtown Dallas 's largest buildings are the fruit of this boom, but over-speculation, the savings and loan crisis and an oil bust brought the 80's building boom to an end for Dallas as well as its city sister Houston. Between the late s and the early s, central Dallas went through a slow period of growth.
However, since the early s the central core of Dallas has been enjoying steady and significant growth encompassing both repurposing of older commercial buildings in downtown Dallas into residential and hotel uses as well as the construction of new office and residential towers. The residential real estate market in the Dallas—Fort Worth metroplex has not only been resilient but has once again returned to a boom status.
Dallas and the greater metro have been leading the nation in apartment construction and net leasing with rents reaching all-time highs. Single family home sales, whether pre-owned or new construction, along with home price appreciation are leading the nation. A sudden drop in the price of oil, starting in mid and accelerating throughout , has not significantly affected Dallas and its greater metro due to the highly diversified nature of its economy.
Dallas, and the DFW metro, continue to see strong demand for housing, apartment and office leasing, shopping center space, warehouse and industrial space with overall job growth remaining very robust. Oil-dependent cities and regions have felt significant effects from the downturn but Dallas growth has continued unabated, strengthening in Significant national headquarters relocations to the area as exemplified by Toyota's decision to leave California and establish its new North American headquarters in the Dallas region coupled with significant expansions of regional offices for a variety of corporations and along with company relocations to downtown Dallas are helping drive the current boom in the Dallas economy.
The Dallas—Fort Worth area has one of the largest concentrations of corporate headquarters for publicly traded companies in the United States. Fortune Magazine's annual list of the Fortune in America indicates the city of Dallas has 9 Fortune companies, [91] and the DFW region as a whole has 22, [84] reflecting the continued strong growth in the metro economy and up from 20 the year before. In October , Jacobs Engineering , one of the world's largest engineering companies, relocated from Pasadena, California to Downtown Dallas.
Irving is home to 6 Fortune companies of its own, including ExxonMobil , the largest oil company in the world [97] and the fourth largest company in the nation by revenue for , [91] Fluor engineering , Kimberly-Clark , Celanese , Michaels Companies, and Vistra Energy.
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Worth is home to 2 Fortune companies including American Airlines , the largest airline in the world by revenue, fleet size, profit, passengers carried and revenue passenger mile and D. Horton , the largest homebuilder in America. Cheese's , Zale Corporation , and Fossil, Inc. Komen for the Cure , the world's largest breast cancer organization [99] was founded and is headquartered in Dallas.
In addition to its large number of businesses, Dallas has more shopping centers per capita than any other city in the United States and is also home to the second shopping center ever built in the United States, Highland Park Village , which opened in Both malls feature high-end stores and are major tourist draws for the region.
According to Forbes magazine's annual list of "The Richest People in America" published September 21, , the city is now home to 17 billionaires, up from 14 in In with 14 billionaires the city placed 6th worldwide among cities with the most billionaires. In , Forbes also ranked Dallas No. Dallas is known for its barbecue , authentic Mexican , and Tex-Mex cuisine. Famous products of the Dallas culinary scene include the frozen margarita.
The Arts District in the northern section of Downtown is home to several arts venues and is the largest contiguous arts district in the United States. The Perot Museum of Nature and Science , also downtown, is a natural history and science museum. Designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Thom Mayne and his firm Morphosis Architects, the ,square-foot facility has six floors and stands about 14 stories high.
In , it joined up with "Prado on the Prairie" for a three-year partnership. These works, as well as non-Spanish highlights like sculptures by Rodin and Moore, have been so successful of a collaboration that the Prado and Meadows have agreed upon an extension of the partnership. Kennedy in , has served since the s as a county government office building, except for its sixth and seventh floors, which house the Sixth Floor Museum.
Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts , a magnet school that was recently expanded. Deep Ellum , immediately east of Downtown, originally became popular during the s and s as the prime jazz and blues hot spot in the South. Today, Deep Ellum is home to hundreds of artists who live in lofts and operate in studios throughout the district alongside bars, pubs, and concert venues. One major example, the Good-Latimer tunnel, was torn down in late to accommodate the construction of a light rail line through the site.
Like Deep Ellum before it, the Cedars neighborhood to the south of Downtown has also seen a growing population of studio artists and an expanding roster of entertainment venues. The area's art scene began to grow in the early s with the opening of Southside on Lamar , an old Sears Roebuck and Company warehouse converted into lofts, studios, and retail. Within this building, Southside on Lamar hosts the Janette Kennedy Gallery with rotating gallery exhibitions featuring many local, national, and international artists. South of the Trinity River, the Bishop Arts District in Oak Cliff is home to a number of studio artists living in converted warehouses.
Walls of buildings along alleyways and streets are painted with murals, and the surrounding streets contain many eclectic restaurants and shops. Dallas has an Office of Cultural Affairs as a department of the city government. The office is responsible for six cultural centers throughout the city, funding for local artists and theaters, initiating public art projects, and running the city-owned classical radio station WRR.
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The city is served by the Dallas Public Library system. Her fundraising efforts led to a grant from philanthropist and steel baron Andrew Carnegie , which allowed the library system to build its first branch in The most notable event held in Dallas is the State Fair of Texas , which has been held annually at Fair Park since Also, several Omni hotels in the Dallas area host large events to welcome in the new year, including murder mystery parties, rave-inspired events, and other events.
The Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is home to seven major league sports teams: Since joining the league as an expansion team in , the Cowboys have enjoyed substantial success, advancing to eight Super Bowls and winning five; according to profootballreference. Jeff Banister is the team's manager. All home games are played at the College Park Center.
Open Cup in and and the Supporters' Shield in The team plays at the American Airlines Center. The Dallas Rattlers are members of Major League Lacrosse and became the first professional lacrosse team in the state of Texas in November when the league announced its Rochester, New York franchise was relocating. They play their home games in the Allen Event Center. The team is named after the original Dallas Sidekicks that operated from to Rugby union is a developing sport in Dallas as well as the whole of Texas.
The multiple clubs, ranging from men's and women's clubs to collegiate and high school, are part of the Texas Rugby Football Union. The only Division I sports program within the Dallas political boundary is the Dallas Baptist University Patriots baseball team [] [] Although outside the city limits, the Mustangs of Southern Methodist University are in the enclave of University Park. The city's parks contain 17 separate lakes, including White Rock and Bachman lakes, spanning a total of 4, acres In addition, Dallas is traversed by Dallas's flagship park is Fair Park.
Klyde Warren Park is home to countless amenities, including an amphitheater , jogging trails, a children's park, My Best Friend's Park dog park , a putting green, croquet , ping pong, chess, an outdoor library, and two restaurants: Food trucks give hungry people another option of dining and are lined along the park's downtown side.
There are also weekly planned events, including yoga, Zumba, skyline tours, Tai Chi, and meditation. Klyde Warren Park is home to a free trolley stop on Olive St. Built in , Turtle Creek Park is a Archaeological surveys discovered dart points and flint chips dating 3, years to 1, BC. This site was later discovered to be home to Native Americans who cherished the trees and natural spring water. The park was home to an amusement park, a large pool, waterslides, the world's largest skating rink, and three theaters, the largest being the 2,seat Casino Theater.
After the streetcar bridge that brought most of the park visitors collapsed, Lake Cliff Park was sold. The Casino Theater moved and the pool was demolished after a polio scare in The pool was Dallas's first municipal pool. Reverchon Park was planned to be the crown jewel of the Dallas park system and was even referred to as the " Central Park " of Dallas. Improvements were made throughout the years, including the Iris Bowl, picnic settings, a baseball diamond, and tennis courts. The Iris Bowl celebrated many Greek pageants, dances, and other performances.
The Gill Well was installed for nearby residents and drew people all across Texas who wanted to experience the water's healing powers. Opened in , it serves as a gateway to many trails and other nature-viewing activities in the area. The city is also home to Texas's first and largest zoo, the acre 0. The city uses a council-manager government , with Mike Rawlings serving as Mayor, T.
Broadnax serving as city manager, [] and 14 council members serving as representatives to the 14 council districts in the city. In Anita N. Dallas also is the seat of the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas.
Overall, Dallas is a Democratic-leaning city, with Democratic voters spreading the majority of the city, especially the central and southern sectors, and conservative Republicans dominating a sliver of suburban neighborhoods in North Dallas. Jim Schutze of the Dallas Observer said in "the early vote in majority-black precincts in Southern Dallas is the city's only disciplined vote. Especially in citywide elections on issues that are not entwined in the internal politics of the black community, the Southern Dallas African-American vote has a history of responding obediently to the call of leadership.
In the U. An open lesbian, Valdez was the only female sheriff in the state of Texas until her resignation. Despite controversies in her handling of county jails, she won re-election in with a point victory over Republican challenger Lowell Cannaday. There are public schools, 89 private schools, 38 colleges, and 32 libraries in Dallas. The Dallas area has the highest concentration of colleges and universities in Texas. In addition to those in the city, the surrounding cities also has a number of universities, colleges, trade schools, and other educational institutions. The following describes the universities and their proximity to the city:.
A number of colleges and universities are also outside the immediate metropolitan area, including:. Most people in the city of Dallas are within the Dallas Independent School District , the 12th-largest school district in the United States and second largest in Texas. White , Williams Preparatory, and Woodrow Wilson high schools. Woodrow Wilson was also named the top comprehensive high school in Dallas by local publication D Magazine.
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Dallas has several local newspapers, magazines, television stations and radio stations that serve the Dallas—Fort Worth metroplex , which is the 5th-largest media market in the United States. Belo and is A. The Dallas Times Herald , started in , was the Morning News' major competitor until Belo purchased it on December 8, and closed the paper down the next day. The Dallas Morning News also puts out a weekly publication, neighborsgo , which comes out every Friday and focuses on community news. Readers can post stories and contribute content to the website.
The Dallas Observer and the North Texas Journal are also alternative weekly newspapers, D Magazine , is a notable monthly magazine about business, life, and entertainment in the Metroplex.
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In addition, the Park Cities and suburbs such as Plano also have their own community newspapers. Also, THE magazine covers the contemporary arts scene. It also publishes a major Spanish-language newspaper for the entire Metroplex known as La Estrella. Dallas has many hospitals and several medical research facilities within its city limits. Clements University Hospital formerly St. The center is home to a Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy CMOP , part of an initiative by the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide mail-order prescriptions to veterans using computerization at strategic locations throughout the United States.
The 3,officer Dallas Police Department provides most policing in Dallas. Renee Hall effective Sept. Fire protection and emergency medical services in the city are provided by Dallas Fire-Rescue, which has 1, firefighters [] and 58 working fire stations in the city limits. Dallas's oldest remaining fire station building still stands at the corner of McKinney Ave. It was the home of Engine Co. Number 1, and is now a picture framing shop. Like many other major cities in the United States, the automobile is the primary mode of local transportation, though efforts have been made to increase the availability of alternative modes of transportation, including the construction of light rail lines, biking and walking paths, wide sidewalks, a trolley system, and buses.
Walk Score ranked Dallas the twenty-third most walkable of fifty largest cities in the United States. The mode share for Dallas city commuters are The national average was 8. Dallas is at the confluence of four major interstate highways —Interstates 20 , 30 , 35E , and The Dallas area freeway system is set up in the popular hub-and-spoke system, shaped much like a wagon wheel. Inside these freeway loops are other boulevard - and parkway -style loops, including Loop 12 and Belt Line Road.
Radiating out of Downtown Dallas's freeway loop are the spokes of the area's highway system—Interstates 30, 35E, and 45, U. Highway 75 , U. Highway 80 , and U. Other major highways around the city include State Highway and State Spur The recently completed interchange at the intersection of Lyndon B. Highway 75 has 5 stacks and is aptly called the High Five Interchange.
It is one of the few 5-level interchanges in Dallas and is one of the largest freeway interchanges in the United States. DART began operating the first light rail system in Texas in , and it is now the largest operator of light rail in the US. The two lines service Cityplace Station , the only subway station in the Southwest.
The Blue Line has also been extended by 4. Two commercial airports serve Dallas: In addition, Dallas Executive Airport formerly Redbird Airport , serves as a general aviation airport for the city, and Addison Airport functions similarly just outside the city limits in the suburb of Addison. In terms of traffic, DFW is the busiest airport in the state, 4th busiest in the United States, and 11th busiest in the world.
Dallas is served by Dallas Water Utilities , which operates several waste treatment plants and pulls water from several area reservoirs. The city offers garbage pickup and recycling service weekly through its Sanitation Services department. Dallas has six sister cities and five friendship cities.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the city in the U. For other uses, see Dallas disambiguation. City in Texas, United States. Top to bottom, left to right: Location within Dallas County and the U. List of Dallas Landmarks and List of tallest buildings in Dallas. List of neighborhoods in Dallas. Geology of the Dallas—Fort Worth Metroplex. List of mayors of Dallas and Sister cities of Dallas.
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