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City dreams, country schemes : community and identity in the American West / edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan and Amy L. Scott.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Urban West.
- Urban West Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life--West (U.S.).
- City and town life.
- Community life--West (U.S.).
- Community life.
- City planning--West (U.S.).
- City planning.
- Urbanization--West (U.S.).
- Urbanization.
- Group identity--West (U.S.).
- Group identity.
- Rural development--West (U.S.).
- Rural development.
- West (U.S.)--Social life and customs.
- West (U.S.).
- West (U.S.)--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Reno, Nevada ; Las Vegas, [Nevada] : University of Nevada Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The American West, from the beginning of Euro-American settlement, has been shaped by diverse ideas about how to utilize physical space and natural environments to create cohesive, sometimes exclusive community identities. When westerners developed their towns, they constructed spaces and cultural identities that reflected alternative understandings of modern urbanity. The essays in City Dreams, Country Schemes utilize an interdisciplinary approach to explore the ways that westerners conceptualized, built, and inhabited urban, suburban, and exurban spaces in the twentieth century. The contributors examine such topics as the attractions of open space and rural gentrification in shaping urban development; the role of tourism in developing national parks, historical sites, and California's Napa Valley; and the roles of public art, gender, and ethnicity in shaping urban centers. City Dreams, CountrySchemes reveals the values and expectations that have shaped the West and the lives of the people who inhabit it.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780874178647
- 0874178649
- OCLC:
- 757509340
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