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Title City dreams, country schemes : community and identity in the American West / edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan and Amy L. Scott
Published Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 325 pages)
Series The urban West series
Urban West.
Contents Introduction / Amy L. Scott and Kathleen A. Brosnan -- The wishful West / John M. Findlay -- pt. 1. The metropolitan retreat to the eco-urban -- Crafting the good life in Irvine, California / Stephanie Kolberg -- Open-space politics in Boulder, Colorado / Amy L. Scott -- Wilderburbs and Rocky Mountain development / Lincoln Bramwell -- Middle-class migration and rural gentrification in western Montana / Rina Ghose -- pt. 2. Tourism, memory, and Western urban identities -- Urbanity and pastoralism in Napa tourism / Kathleen A. Brosnan -- Family travel, national parks, and the Cold War West / Susan S. Rugh -- Public art, memory, and mobility in 1920s New Mexico / Jeffrey C. Sanders -- Reclaiming Cannery Row's industrial history / Connie Y. Chiang -- Seattle's Pike Place Market / Judy Mattivi Morley -- pt. 3. From cultural and geographic margins to urban centers -- The making of San Francisco's queer urban scene / Nan Alamilla Boyd -- San Francisco, Red power, and the emergence of an "Indian city" / Kent Blansett -- Gay male rural-urban migration in the American West / Peter Boag
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject City and town life -- West (U.S.)
Community life -- West (U.S.)
Group identity -- West (U.S.)
City planning -- West (U.S.)
Urbanization -- West (U.S.)
Rural development -- West (U.S.)
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 and town life
City planning
Community life
Group identity
Manners and customs
Rural development
Social conditions
Urbanization
SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs
West (U.S.) -- Social conditions
Subject West United States
Form Electronic book
Author Brosnan, Kathleen A., 1960-
Scott, Amy L. (Amy Louise)
ISBN 9780874178647
0874178649