| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
The urban West series |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Last Urban Frontier / Stephanie L. Witt -- SOLITUDE -- Framing the Empty: Technology and Progress in Photography and Art / Todd Shallat -- Urban Places/Empty Spaces: Big and Small Governments in the Great Basin / Stephanie L. Witt -- Go Away Closer: The Collision of Culture and Governance / Brian Laurent -- Crucible for Populist Resistance: Tracing the Roots of the Sagebrush Rebellion / Christopher A. Simon -- SAGEBRUSH EMPIRE -- Fragile Desert: Managing the Great Basin's Environmental Crisis / Zachary A. Smith -- Cheatgrass Empire: Public Lands as a Contested Resource / Brent S. Steel -- Solace of Empty Spaces: Searching for Tourists in America's Outback / Dennis R. Judd -- CITIES ON THE RIM -- Constructing the "Quality of Life" City: "Boise Is Best" / Erin Daina McClellan -- Persistent Possibility of Failure: Making Something of Nothing in Las Vegas / Elizabeth Raymond -- Errant into the Wilderness: Reno's Acts Against Nature / Alicia Barber -- Cowboys and Clerics: Political Culture and Planning Regimes in Salt Lake City and Boise / Chris Blanchard -- Coming Convergence / Dennis R. Judd |
| Summary |
"This manuscript explores the environmental consequences and political conflicts arising from the urbanization of the Great Basin. It focuses on four major metropolitan areas on the Basin's rim--Boise, Reno, Salt Lake City, and Las Vegas--to explore how these cities cope with the problems associated with rapid growth, when attempts to do so provoke conflict between urban residents and the people who live in the thinly populated desert outback. In the Basin, policies to address the environmental and resource limitations imposed by the desert may be incompatible with a rural political culture that resists all cooperation or governmental effort. Each chapter of the manuscript traces the way that the tensions between three ingredients--cities, remarkable scarcity, and a conservative political culture--inform contemporary policy debates and public policies of the region through an analysis of the environmental stresses connected to economic change, resource extraction, land management, and urban development"-- Provided by publisher |
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"Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude explores the transformation of the largest desert in North America, the Great Basin, into America's last urban frontier. In recent decades Las Vegas, Reno, Salt Lake City, and Boise have become the anchors for sprawling metropolitan regions. This population explosion has been fueled by the maturing of Las Vegas as the nation's entertainment capital, the rise of Reno as a magnet for multitudes of California expatriates, the development of Salt Lake City's urban corridor along the Wasatch Range, and the growth of Boise's celebrated high-tech economy and hip urban culture. The blooming of cities in a fragile desert region poses a host of environmental challenges. The policies required to manage their impact, however, often collide with an entrenched political culture that has long resisted cooperative or governmental effort. The alchemical mixture of three ingredients--cities, aridity, and a libertarian political outlook--makes the Great Basin a compelling place to study. This book addresses a pressing question: are large cities ultimately sustainable in such a fragile environment?"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sustainable urban development -- Great Basin
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Urban policy -- Great Basin
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Urbanization -- Great Basin
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Ecology.
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Economic history.
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Politics and government.
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Sustainable urban development.
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Urban policy.
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Urbanization.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Basin -- Politics and government
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Great Basin -- Economic conditions
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Great Basin -- Environmental conditions
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| Subject |
United States -- Great Basin.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Witt, Stephanie L
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Judd, Dennis R
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| ISBN |
9780874179705 |
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087417970X |
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