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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465126803321

Titolo

Cities and nature in the American West / / edited by Char Miller ; design by Kathleen Szawiola

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reno, Nevada ; ; Las Vegas, [Nevada] : , : University of Nevada Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-87417-847-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Urban West Series

Disciplina

307.760978

Soggetti

Urban ecology (Sociology) - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century

Urbanization - Environmental aspects - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century

City planning - Environmental aspects - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century

Nature - Effect of human beings on - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century

Environmentalism - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century

Social change - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

West (U.S.) Environmental conditions

West (U.S.) Social conditions 20th century

West (U.S.) History, Local

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Into the West / Char Miller -- Land -- Sweetening the urban marketplace : California's Hawaiian outpost / Jessica Teisch -- Crabgrass or grapes : urban sprawl, agricultural persistence, and the fight for the Napa Valley / Kathleen A. Brosnan -- Natives' return : LBJ'S Texas White House and Lady Bird's wildflowers / Vera Norwood -- Water -- Fishy thinking : salmon and the persistence of history in urban environmental politics / Matthew Klingle -- One city, two rivers : Columbia and Willamette rivers in the environmental history of twentieth-century Portland, Oregon / William Lang -- Private water :



the curious case of San Jose's water supply / Martin V. Melosi -- Campground -- Performing bears and packaged wilderness : reframing the history of national parks / Marguerite S. Shaffer -- The devil in the cathedral : sewage and garbage in Yosemite National Park / Craig E. Colten and Lary M. Dilsaver -- Sleeping outside : the political natures of urban camping / Phoebe S. Kropp Young -- City -- Boundary issues : clarifying New Orleans's murky edges / Ari Kelman -- The nature and business of war : drilling for oil in wartime Los Angeles / Sarah S. Elkind -- Stand by your brand : Vail, Colorado, and the consumer roots of popular environmentalism / William Philpott -- The whole Earth catalog, new games, and urban environmentalism / Andrew G. Kirk -- Escape to the West/return to the East : the lure of the city familiar / Joel A. Tarr.