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Author Adamson, Michael R., author

Title Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast Ralph Bramel Lloyd and the Shaping of the Urban West / Michael R. Adamson
Edition First edition
Published Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2018. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 379 pages :) illustrations, maps
Series Energy and society
Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Intro; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Role of the Independent Oil Operator; 1. Developing the Ventura Avenue Field; 2. Local Elites, Outside Companies, and Ventura's Oil Boom; 3. Making Portland a Wonderful City; 4. False Start: Ralph Lloyd's East Side Dream Falls Short; 5. The Lloyd Corporation Becomes an Independent Operator; 6. Depression-Era Commercial Real Estate Development and Management; 7. Public Capital and the Development of Portland's East Side; 8. The Suburbanization of Urban Space: The Lloyd Center; Conclusion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Lloyd, Ralph Bramel
Real estate development -- Pacific States -- History
Petroleum industry and trade -- Pacific States -- History
Businessmen -- Pacific States -- Biography
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General.
Businessmen
Petroleum industry and trade
Real estate development
United States -- Pacific States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Project Muse.
LC no. 2018010576
ISBN 9781946684448
1946684449