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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.