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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781850203321

Titolo

City dreams, country schemes : community and identity in the American West / / edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan and Amy L. Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reno, Nevada ; ; Las Vegas, [Nevada] : , : University of Nevada Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-87417-864-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Urban West Series

Disciplina

978

Soggetti

City and town life - West (U.S.)

Community life - West (U.S.)

City planning - West (U.S.)

Urbanization - West (U.S.)

Group identity - West (U.S.)

Rural development - West (U.S.)

West (U.S.) Social life and customs

West (U.S.) Social conditions

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

Introduction / Amy L. Scott and Kathleen A. Brosnan -- The wishful West / John M. Findlay -- pt. 1. The metropolitan retreat to the eco-urban -- Crafting the good life in Irvine, California / Stephanie Kolberg -- Open-space politics in Boulder, Colorado / Amy L. Scott -- Wilderburbs and Rocky Mountain development / Lincoln Bramwell -- Middle-class migration and rural gentrification in western Montana / Rina Ghose -- pt. 2. Tourism, memory, and Western urban identities -- Urbanity and pastoralism in Napa tourism / Kathleen A. Brosnan -- Family travel, national parks, and the Cold War West / Susan S. Rugh -- Public art, memory, and mobility in 1920s New Mexico / Jeffrey C. Sanders -- Reclaiming Cannery Row's industrial history / Connie Y. Chiang -- Seattle's Pike Place Market / Judy Mattivi Morley -- pt. 3. From cultural and geographic margins to urban centers -- The making of San Francisco's queer urban scene / Nan Alamilla Boyd -- San



Francisco, Red power, and the emergence of an "Indian city" / Kent Blansett -- Gay male rural-urban migration in the American West / Peter Boag.