Nashville Metro: The Politics of City-County Consolidation

by Brett W. Hawkins

Book Overview

As Nashville's governance is under increasing scrutiny by the Tennessee General Assembly, many Nashvillians are struggling to understand what our metropolitan form of government is and why we chose to reorganize our city this way in 1963. Nashville Metro was first published in the aftermath of that decision, and it provides a comprehensive record of what the city understood itself to be doing at the time. How did it happen? When so many less...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826507425
• ISBN13: 9780826507426
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 162 Pages