City dreams, country schemes
Subtitle: community and identity in the American West
By: Kathleen A. Brosnan and Amy L. Scott, editors
Series: The urban West series
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Reno
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780874178517
Subjects: Social life and customs; Community life; Urbanization; Group identity; Rural development; Social conditions; City planning; City and town life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Amy L. Scott and Kathleen A. Brosnan; title: The wishful West / John M. Findlay; title: pt. 1. The metropolitan retreat to the eco-urban; title: Crafting the good life in Irvine, California / Stephanie Kolberg; title: Open-space politics in Boulder, Colorado / Amy L. Scott; title: Wilderburbs and Rocky Mountain development / Lincoln Bramwell; title: Middle-class migration and rural gentrification in western Montana / Rina Ghose; title: pt. 2. Tourism, memory, and Western urban identities; title: Urbanity and pastoralism in Napa tourism / Kathleen A. Brosnan; title: Family travel, national parks, and the Cold War West / Susan S. Rugh; title: Public art, memory, and mobility in 1920s New Mexico / Jeffrey C. Sanders; title: Reclaiming Cannery Row's industrial history / Connie Y. Chiang; title: Seattle's Pike Place Market / Judy Mattivi Morley; title: pt. 3. From cultural and geographic margins to urban centers; title: The making of San Francisco's queer urban scene / Nan Alamilla Boyd; title: San Francisco, Red power, and the emergence of an "Indian city" / Kent Blansett; title: Gay male rural-urban migration in the American West / Peter Boag.