Environmental city
Subtitle: people, place, politics, and the meaning of modern Austin
By: William Scott Swearingen, Jr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780292721814; 9780292722026
Subjects: City planning -- Environmental aspects -- Texas -- Austin; Land use, Urban -- Environmental aspects -- Texas -- Austin; Environmentalism -- Texas -- Austin
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The theory behind the connections; title: The landscape emerges; title: Institutionalizing environmental concerns: city government and city politics; title: Of neighborhoods and environment: contesting the growth machine; title: The environmental meaning as banner: the save our springs coalition and the green machine; title: The environmental city; title: The doing of it: continuing the environmental meaning.