How cities won the West : four centuries of urban change in western North America / Carl Abbott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abbott, Carl.

Series:

Histories of the American frontier.

Histories of the American frontier

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--West (U.S.)--History.

Cities and towns.

Cities and towns--West (U.S.)--Growth.

Cities and towns--Canada, Western--History.

Cities and towns--Canada, Western--Growth.

Metropolitan areas--West (U.S.)--Growth.

Metropolitan areas.

Metropolitan areas--Canada, Western--History.

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

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

x, 347 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque [N.M.] : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author traces the evolution of early frontier towns at the beginning of Western expansion to the thriving urban centers they have become today.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-334) and index.

ISBN:

9781283635295

1283635291

9780826333148

0826333141

OCLC:

312572231