America, dreams of the quality featuring the 1848 womens rights convention. Kansas city, missouri, is known as the city of fountains with over 200 officially registered in the metro area. It could easily be known as the city of boulevards. Here is George Kessler and the developer of the park and boulevard system. Todays park and boulevard system is about 130 miles. Our system today has about 12,000 acres of parkland in the city. That 12,000 acres is within about 310 square miles of kansas city. Ofaddition to that 130 miles parks and boulevards, we have 230 parks in the city. They range all the way in size from a little under 2000 acres to Neighborhood Parks that are less than an acre. Everyone has a little different, and they are all different. Some of these larger parks are more of what is considered to be a community or regional park. Timeframe,s, 1890 candace was a wild western town. Zoning,snt a lot of planning. Public health was a big issue associated with urban development concer
Have 220 parks throughout the city and they range all the way in size from a Large School Park to Neighborhood Parks under an acre. There are all sizes. Every one is a little bit different. Of the small ones are in neighborhoods. Some of these larger parks are what i would consider to be a community or regional park. The 1880s, 1890s timeframe, kansas city was a wild woolly western town. A lot of small structures. Shacks, things like that. There is not a lot of zoning or planning associated with that. Public health was a big issue associated with the urban development. All of those things, you did not really have a modern city. Built on the western perimeter of misery as you kind of went to the west part of the community. A city with more modern developments had more control of oil was happening at that time and of course the leadership of the city made that happen. Conversation, it was about the original Landscape Architect of the city who did a lot of the design Work Associated with
We will explore the history of this midwest city parent coming up, the sinking of the steamboat, one of the many to sink on the dangerous waters of the Missouri River. It sank within minutes. 150 passengers on board were terrified and no one died. But they lost all the freights , goods and cargoes belongings. Third 132 years until the until we dug it up. Nationalter, visit the world war i museum and memorial and see a collection of posters involved in the comments in the conflict. True socialere the media of the day. Really what they meant to the various countries. With thein our look mayor, james. Isphysically, keep it 480,000 people spread across the 318 square miles, about 1460 per square mile. 30 smart when you get down to it. Roughly 30 africanamerican, 11 latino, 5 various mixes of immigrants and cultures there. The rest, caucasian. Kansas city has a variety of neighborhoods and an extremely sophisticated purpose and culture, things people might not expect. ,e have tremendous spo
A violation of an individuals civil rights. Since then, many cases have been documented. Russman may appear to be simply a new harassment may appear to be simply annoying to the victim, but there is an overall loss of productivity and a drop in route. When the harasser wields his or her power and demand sexual favors in exchange for promotions and job security, it is more of a problem. In all cases, the offenders conduct is unwelcome. The harasser is essentially forcing the victim to make a choice between professional wellbeing and sexual integrity. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website, where all of our video is archived. That is cspan. Org history. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to today by your cable or satellite provider. Kansas city, missouri is known as the city of fountains with over 200 officially registered here in the metropolitan area. It
Next, we will look at our recent visit to kansas city missouri. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Todays park and boulevard systems about 139 miles. Our system has about 12,000 acres of parkland in the city. That 12,000 acres is in about 310 square miles of kansas city. In addition to that 130 miles we have 220 parks throughout the city and they range all the way in size from a Large School Park down to Neighborhood Parks under an acre. There are all sizes. Everyone has a little bit different. Most of the small ones are in neighborhoods. Some of these larger parks are what i would consider to be a community or regional park. Back in the 1880s, 1890s timeframe, kansas city was a western town. A lot of small structures. Shanties, shacks, things like that. There is not a lot of zoning or planning associated with that. Public health was a big issue associated with the urban development. All of those things, you did not really have a modern city. Yo