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Titolo |
Cities and nature in the American West / / edited by Char Miller ; design by Kathleen Szawiola |
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Reno, Nevada ; ; Las Vegas, [Nevada] : , : University of Nevada Press, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (234 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
West (U.S.) Environmental conditions |
West (U.S.) Social conditions 20th century |
West (U.S.) History, Local |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 -- |
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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. |
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