Title Cities and nature in the American West / edited by Char Miller.

Publication Info.	Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (vii, 278 pages).
Series	The urban West series
	Urban West.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Into the West / Char Miller -- Land -- Sweetening the urban marketplace : California's Hawaiian outpost / Jessica Teisch -- Crabgrass or grapes : urban sprawl, agricultural persistence, and the fight for the Napa Valley / Kathleen A. Brosnan -- Natives' return : LBJ'S Texas White House and Lady Bird's wildflowers / Vera Norwood -- Water -- Fishy thinking : salmon and the persistence of history in urban environmental politics / Matthew Klingle -- One city, two rivers : Columbia and Willamette rivers in the environmental history of twentieth-century Portland, Oregon / William Lang -- Private water : the curious case of San Jose's water supply / Martin V. Melosi -- Campground -- Performing bears and packaged wilderness : reframing the history of national parks / Marguerite S. Shaffer -- The devil in the cathedral : sewage and garbage in Yosemite National Park / Craig E. Colten and Lary M. Dilsaver -- Sleeping outside : the political natures of urban camping / Phoebe S. Kropp Young -- City -- Boundary issues : clarifying New Orleans's murky edges / Ari Kelman -- The nature and business of war : drilling for oil in wartime Los Angeles / Sarah S. Elkind -- Stand by your brand : Vail, Colorado, and the consumer roots of popular environmentalism / William Philpott -- The whole Earth catalog, new games, and urban environmentalism / Andrew G. Kirk -- Escape to the West/return to the East : the lure of the city familiar / Joel A. Tarr.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Urban ecology (Sociology) -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
	Urbanization -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
	City planning -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
	Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
	Environmentalism -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
	Social change -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
	West (U.S.) -- Environmental conditions.
	West (U.S.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	West (U.S.) -- History, Local.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
	City planning -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst00862209
	Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
	Environmentalism. (OCoLC)fst00913543
	Nature -- Effect of human beings on. (OCoLC)fst01034564
	Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Urban ecology (Sociology) (OCoLC)fst01733718
	Urbanization -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst01162728
	United States, West. (OCoLC)fst01243255
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Local history. (OCoLC)fst01411631
	Electronic books.
Added Author	Miller, Char, 1951-
Other Form:	Print version: Cities and nature in the American West. Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2010 9780874178241 (DLC) 2010014696 (OCoLC)608034007
ISBN	9780874178470 (electronic bk.)
	0874178479 (electronic bk.)

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