City dreams, country schemes : community and identity in the American West / Kathleen A. Brosnan and Amy L. Scott, editors.
Uniform Title: | Urban West.
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Language: | English |
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Reno :
University of Nevada Press,
[2011], ©2011.
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Series: | Urban West.
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Physical Description: | vii, 325 pages . |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction / Amy L. Scott and Kathleen A. Brosnan
- The wishful West / John M. Findlay
- pt. 1. The metropolitan retreat to the eco-urban
- Crafting the good life in Irvine, California / Stephanie Kolberg
- Open-space politics in Boulder, Colorado / Amy L. Scott
- Wilderburbs and Rocky Mountain development / Lincoln Bramwell
- Middle-class migration and rural gentrification in western Montana / Rina Ghose
- pt. 2. Tourism, memory, and Western urban identities
- Urbanity and pastoralism in Napa tourism / Kathleen A. Brosnan
- Family travel, national parks, and the Cold War West / Susan S. Rugh
- Public art, memory, and mobility in 1920s New Mexico / Jeffrey C. Sanders
- Reclaiming Cannery Row's industrial history / Connie Y. Chiang
- Seattle's Pike Place Market / Judy Mattivi Morley
- pt. 3. From cultural and geographic margins to urban centers
- The making of San Francisco's queer urban scene / Nan Alamilla Boyd
- San Francisco, Red power, and the emergence of an "Indian city" / Kent Blansett
- Gay male rural-urban migration in the American West / Peter Boag.