Cities and nature in the American West / edited by Char Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Char, 1951-

Series:

Urban West

The urban West series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Urban ecology (Sociology).

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

Urbanization.

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

City planning.

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

Nature.

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

Environmentalism.

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

Social change.

History.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

City planning--Environmental aspects.

Urbanization--Environmental aspects.

West (U.S.)--Environmental conditions.

West (U.S.).

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

West (U.S.)--History, Local.

Physical Description:

vii, 278 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2010]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780874178241

087417824X

OCLC:

608034007