City dreams, country schemes [electronic resource] : community and identity in the American West / edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan and Amy L. Scott.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brosnan, Kathleen A., 1960-
Scott, Amy L. (Amy Louise)
Language:English
Published: Reno : University of Nevada Press, c2011.
Series:The urban West series
Subjects:
City and town life > West (U.S.)
Community life > West (U.S.)
Group identity > West (U.S.)
City planning > West (U.S.)
Urbanization > West (U.S.)
Rural development > West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) > Social life and customs.
West (U.S.) > Social conditions.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2013 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2011 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2011 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
City Dreams, Country Schemes: Community and Identity in the American West
Format: Electronic eBook
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.