Uniting mountain & plain : cities, law, and environmental change along the front range /

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"By linking widely separated ecosystems in the urban-based economy of the Front Range, Brosnan notes, entrepreneurs created irrevocable environmental change and restructured the relations of the region's inhabitants with the land and with each other. Hispanic and Native American people who...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brosnan, Kathleen A., 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2002.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
City planning > Colorado > Case studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
City planning
Ecology
Economic history
Denver (Colo.) > History.
Colorado Springs (Colo.) > History.
Pueblo (Colo.) > History.
Denver (Colo.) > Economic conditions.
Colorado Springs (Colo.) > Economic conditions.
Pueblo (Colo.) > Economic conditions.
Denver (Colo.) > Environmental conditions.
Colorado Springs (Colo.) > Environmental conditions.
Pueblo (Colo.) > Environmental conditions.
Colorado
Colorado > Colorado Springs
Colorado > Denver
Colorado > Pueblo
Case studies
History
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Holding the purse strings : Denver emerges
  • Vanquishing the Indians : Denver clears the plains
  • Taming the desert : Denver turns to agriculture
  • Creating a valuable niche : Colorado Springs and the tourist trade
  • Forging steel : Pueblo's incomplete challenge
  • Mastering nature : reality and illusion.

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