Cities and nature in the American West
By: edited by Char Miller
Series: The urban West series
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Reno
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780874178241
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Into the West / Char Miller; title: Land; title: Sweetening the urban marketplace : California's Hawaiian outpost / Jessica Teisch; title: Crabgrass or grapes : urban sprawl, agricultural persistence, and the fight for the Napa Valley / Kathleen A. Brosnan; title: Natives' return : LBJ'S Texas White House and Lady Bird's wildflowers / Vera Norwood; title: Water; title: Fishy thinking : salmon and the persistence of history in urban environmental politics / Matthew Klingle; title: One city, two rivers : Columbia and Willamette rivers in the environmental history of twentieth-century Portland, Oregon / William Lang; title: Private water : the curious case of San Jose's water supply / Martin V. Melosi; title: Campground; title: Performing bears and packaged wilderness : reframing the history of national parks / Marguerite S. Shaffer; title: The devil in the cathedral : sewage and garbage in Yosemite National Park / Craig E. Colten and Lary M. Dilsaver; title: Sleeping outside : the political natures of urban camping / Phoebe S. Kropp; title: City; title: Boundary issues : clarifying New Orleans's murky edges / Ari Kelman; title: The nature and business of war : drilling for oil in wartime Los Angeles / Sarah S. Elkind; title: Stand by your brand : Vail, Colorado, and the consumer roots of popular environmentalism / William Philpott; title: The whole Earth catalog, new games, and urban environmentalism / Andrew G. Kirk; title: Escape to the West/return to the East : the lure of the city familiar / Joel A. Tarr.