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Anon. (Age 8)

Neighborhood in Political Theory

The theory of the polis in the ancient world and subsequently St. Augustine's City of God do not explicitly discuss neighborhoods or sub-city units. Even so, neighborhood is evident as an important geographical and social unit in the urban organization of the ancient world. Most ancient cities had recognizable "quarters" (e.g., the Jewish quarter) and as the ancient world gradually evolved into the medieval, recognizable concepts of neighborhood are evident in the role of parish (the sub-units of a diocese or arch-diocese) in the geographical organization of the Roman Catholic church.

The concept of neighborhood has been an important figure in more recent political theory, particularly in the U.S. Neighborhood was an important concept during the Progressive Era for figures like Jane Addams, Robert A. Woods and Mary Parker Follett among others. The seven chapters in Part III (entitled "Group Organization: Democracy's Method") of Mary Parket Follett's The New State (1918) detail that author's novel insight of the political role of neighborhoods (often organized as wards or precincts in U.S. cities) in democracy. Contemporaries concerned with rural communities like Lyda Judson (L.J.) Hanifan also regarded the rural neighborhood as an important unit of organization.

The Neighborhood Youth Corps, Head Start and other Great Society programs were organized on a neighborhood basis.

The post-1945 urban migration to the suburbs beginning with Levittown -arguably a new form of synthetic neighborhood - had devastating consequences for many older urban neighborhoods in the view of some urban theorists. From another perspective, urban neighborhoods are very dynamic units that may always be in state of flux. Neighborhood change may include constantly changing composition, definition and boundaries.

• Musical Theater [r]: Performing arts presentations combining song, dance, and [[orchesta]l music with spoken dialogue. Types of musical theater include, among others, Broadway musicals, revues, musical comedy, operetta, and light opera. ^[e]

Title	Composer/Librettist	Scene	Main Characters	Date First Produced	Date Movie
Oklahoma	Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr.	Oklahoma Territory	Curley McLain, Laurey Williams	1941	1955
State Fair	Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr.	Iowa State Fair	The Frake family	1996	1945
Annie Get Your Gun	Irving Berlin		Annie Oakley, "Wild Bill" Cody	1946	1950
Meet Me In St. Louis	Irving Brecker/Fred Finklehoffe	Worlds Fair of 1904	The Smith family		1944
South Pacific	Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr.	WWII in Pacific		1949	1958
Wonderful Town		NYC		1900	1900
New York, New York				1900	1900
Phantom of the Opera	Andrew Lloyd Webber	Paris Opera, Paris Sewer		1941	1943
Aspects of Love	Andrew Lloyd Webber		1948	1948	1948
Cats	Andrew Lloyd Webber		1900	1900
Evita	Andrew Lloyd Webber	Argentina			1900
West Side Story	Leonard Bernstein			1900	1900
The Sound of Music		Austria		1900	1900
My Fair Lady		Edwardian London		1900
Private Lives	Noël Coward	London		1930
Kiss Me Kate				1900
The King and I		Siam		1900
Pal Joey				1900
Guys and Dolls		Broadway		1900
London Calling	Noel Coward	London	Willy & George Craft	1923
Kiss Me Kate
Oliver
A Chorus Line
Hair
No No Nanette
Jesus Christ, Superstar	Tom Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber
Starlight Express	Andrew Lloyd Webber
Follies	Steven Sondheim			1971
Billy Elliot				2008
Gypsy

Catalog of Art Nouveau organizations

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