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City Dreams, Country Schemes: Community and Identity in the American West (The Urban West Series) - Softcover
The American West, from the beginning of Euro-American settlement, has been shaped by diverse ideas about how to utilize physical space and natural environments to create cohesive, sometimes exclusive community identities. When westerners developed their towns, they constructed spaces and cultural identities that reflected alternative understandings of modern urbanity. The essays in City Dreams, Country Schemes utilize an interdisciplinary approach to explore the ways that westerners conceptualized, built, and inhabited urban, suburban, and exurban spaces in the twentieth century.
The contributors examine such topics as the attractions of open space and rural gentrification in shaping urban development; the role of tourism in developing national parks, historical sites, and California's Napa Valley; and the roles of public art, gender, and ethnicity in shaping urban centers. City Dreams, Country Schemes reveals the values and expectations that have shaped the West and the lives of the people who inhabit it.
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Kathleen A. Brosnan is associate dean for faculty and research in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston.
Amy L. Scott is assistant professor of history at Bradley University.
"These essays have much to teach us about some of the dramatic changes that have transformed the American West over the past decades." -- Char Miller, editor of Cities and Nature in the American West
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- PublisherUniversity of Nevada Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0874178517
- ISBN 13 9780874178517
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages344
- EditorBrosnan Kathleen A., Scott Amy L.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The American West, from the beginning of Euro-American settlement, has been shaped by diverse ideas about how to utilize physical space and natural environments to create cohesive, sometimes exclusive community identities. When westerners developed their towns, they constructed spaces and cultural identities that reflected alternative understandings of modern urbanity. The essays in City Dreams, Country Schemes utilize an interdisciplinary approach to explore the ways that westerners conceptualized, built, and inhabited urban, suburban, and exurban spaces in the twentieth century. The contributors examine such topics as the attractions of open space and rural gentrification in shaping urban development; the role of tourism in developing national parks, historical sites, and Californias Napa Valley; and the roles of public art, gender, and ethnicity in shaping urban centers. City Dreams, Country Schemes reveals the values and expectations that have shaped the West and the lives of the people who inhabit it. The essays in City Dreams, Country Schemes utilise an interdisciplinary approach to explore the ways that westerners conceptualised, built, and inhabited urban, suburban, and exurban spaces in the twentieth century. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780874178517
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