How cities won the West four centuries of urban change in western North America /

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Auteur principal: Abbott, Carl
Collectivité auteur: ebrary, Inc
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Albuquerque [N.M.] : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
Collection:Histories of the American frontier.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction: All roads lead to Fresno
  • Outposts of empires
  • Building a West of cities, 1840-1940
  • Across the wide Mississippi
  • The first Pacific century
  • Inland empire cities
  • Garden cities
  • Smokestack frontiers
  • Money in the air
  • Cities of homes
  • Water, power, progress
  • The metropolitan West since 1940
  • Wars and rumors of war
  • Progress and prejudice
  • The politics of diversity
  • Reshaping the metropolis
  • Transnational urbanism
  • The long arm of the metropolitan West
  • Conclusion: Urban frontiers.