Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude : Urbanization and Cultural Conflict in the Great Basin /

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"Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude explores the transformation of the largest desert in North America, the Great Basin, into America's last urban frontier. In recent decades Las Vegas, Reno, Salt Lake City, and Boise have become the anchors for sprawling metropolitan regions. This population...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Judd, Dennis R., Witt, Stephanie L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Urbanization.
Urban policy.
Sustainable urban development.
Politics and government.
Economic history.
Ecology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Urbanisation > Grand Bassin.
Politique urbaine > Grand Bassin.
Urbanisme durable > Grand Bassin.
Urbanization > Great Basin.
Urban policy > Great Basin.
Sustainable urban development > Great Basin.
United States > Great Basin.
Grand Bassin > Conditions environnementales.
Grand Bassin > Conditions economiques.
Great Basin > Environmental conditions.
Great Basin > Economic conditions.
Great Basin > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Last Urban Frontier / Stephanie L. Witt
  • SOLITUDE
  • Framing the Empty: Technology and Progress in Photography and Art / Todd Shallat
  • Urban Places/Empty Spaces: Big and Small Governments in the Great Basin / Stephanie L. Witt
  • Go Away Closer: The Collision of Culture and Governance / Brian Laurent
  • Crucible for Populist Resistance: Tracing the Roots of the Sagebrush Rebellion / Christopher A. Simon
  • SAGEBRUSH EMPIRE
  • Fragile Desert: Managing the Great Basin's Environmental Crisis / Zachary A. Smith
  • Cheatgrass Empire: Public Lands as a Contested Resource / Brent S. Steel
  • Solace of Empty Spaces: Searching for Tourists in America's Outback / Dennis R. Judd
  • CITIES ON THE RIM
  • Constructing the "Quality of Life" City: "Boise Is Best" / Erin Daina McClellan
  • Persistent Possibility of Failure: Making Something of Nothing in Las Vegas / Elizabeth Raymond
  • Errant into the Wilderness: Reno's Acts Against Nature / Alicia Barber
  • Cowboys and Clerics: Political Culture and Planning Regimes in Salt Lake City and Boise / Chris Blanchard
  • Coming Convergence / Dennis R. Judd.

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