The urban West
By: edited with introductions by Gordon Morris Bakken and Brenda Farrington.
Contributors: Bakken, Gordon Morris.; Farrington, Brenda.
Series: The American West -- 5.; American West (Garland Publishing, Inc.) -- 5.
Publisher: Garland Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Cities and towns -- West (U.S.); Sociology, Urban -- West (U.S.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The American Southwest : an urban view / Bradford Luckingham; title: Regional city and network city : Portland and Seattle in the twentieth century / Carl Abbott; title: California cities and the hurricane of change : World War II in the San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan areas / Roger W. Lotchin; title: The urban West and the twenty-first century / Carl Abbott; title: City commercial, city beautiful, city practical : the San Francisco visions of William C. Ralsten, James D. Phelan, and Michael M. O'Shaugnessy / Robert Cherney; title: Demopiety : speculations on urban beauty, western scenery, and the discovery of the American cityscape / Gunther Barth; title: World War II and urban California : city planning and the transformation hypothesis / Roger W. Lotchin; title: Ethnic group settlement on the Great Plains / Frederick C. Luebke; title: Stride toward freedom : the relocation of Indians to cities, 1952-1960 / Kenneth R. Philip; title: Heathens and angels : childhood in the Rocky Mountain mining towns / Elliot West; title: Urban Indians and ethnic choices : American Indian organizations in Minneapolis, 1920-1950 / Nancy Shoemaker; title: Visions of empire : international expositions in Portland and Seattle, 1905-1909 / Robery Rydell; title: From oasis to metropolis : southern California and the changing context of American leisure / Clark Davis.