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City in a garden : environmental transformations and racial justice in twentieth-century Austin, Texas /

The natural beauty of Austin, Texas, has always been central to the city's identity. From the beginning, city leaders, residents, planners, and employers consistently imagined Austin as a natural place, highlighting the region's environmental attributes as they marketed the city and planne...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Busch, Andrew M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The trouble with green
  • A mighty bulwark against the blind and raging forces of nature: harnessing the river
  • A distinct color line mutually conceded: race, natural hazards, and the geography of Austin before World War I
  • A mecca for the cultivated and wealthy: progressivism, race, and geography after World War I
  • The playground of the Southwest: water, consumption, and natural abundance in postwar Austin
  • Industry without smokestacks: knowledge labor, the University of Texas, and suburban Austin
  • Building a city of upper-middle class citizens: urban renewal and racial limits on liberalism
  • More and more enlightened citizens: environmental progressivism and Austin's emergent identity
  • Technopolis: the machine threatens the garden
  • Of toxic tours and what makes Austin, Austin: battles for the garden, battles for the city
  • From garden to city on a hill: the emergency of green urbanity.