Urban Texas
Subtitle: politics and development
By: edited by Char Miller and Heywood T. Sanders.
Contributors: Miller, Char, 1951-; Sanders, Heywood T., 1948-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Texas A & M southwestern studies ;; no. 8
Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Urbanization -- Texas -- History; Metropolitan areas -- Texas -- History; Real estate development -- Texas -- History; Capitalists and financiers -- Texas -- History; Urban policy -- Texas -- Citizen participation -- History -- Case studies
Description: A comparative and multidisciplintary perspective that explores the realtionships among interest groups and voting: religion, reform, gender, and race; civic clubs and suburbs; infrastructure and land development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of urban Texas / Char Miller and David Johnson; title: Frugal and sparing : interest groups, politics, and city building in San Antonio, 1870-85 / David R. Johnson; title: Boss Tweed and V. O. Key in Texas / Amy Bridges; title: Woman, religion, and reform in Galveston, 1880-1920 / Elizabeth Hayes Turner; title: The emergence of a Black neighborhood : Houston's Fourth Ward, 1865-1915 / Cary D. Wintz; title: Olmos Park and the creation of a suburban bastion, 1927-39 / Char Miller and Heywood Sanders; title: Protecting community and property values : civic clubs in Houston, 1909-70  / Robert Fisher; title: Dallas in the 1940s : the challenges and opportunities of defense mobilization / Robert B. Fairbanks; title: Building a new urban infrastructure : the creation of postwar San Antonio / Heywood T. Sanders.