Abbott, Carl, 1944-

The Metropolitan frontier : cities in the modern American West / Carl Abbott.

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1993.

xxiii, 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

The Modern American West

When the American West represented the country's frontier, many of its cities may have seemed little more than trading centers to serve the outlying populace. Now the nation's most open and empty region is also its most heavily urbanized, with 80 percent of Westerners living in its metropolitan areas. The process of urbanization that had already transformed the United States from a rural to an urban society between 1815 and 1930 has continued most clearly and completely.
In the modern West, where growth since 1940 - spurred by mobilization for World War II - has constituted a distinct era in which Western cities have become national and even international pacesetters. The Metropolitan Frontier places this last half-century of Western history in its urban context, making it the first comprehensive overview of urban growth in the region. Integrating the urban experience of all nineteen Western states, Carl Abbott ranges for evidence from.
Honolulu to Houston and from Fargo to Fairbanks to show how Western cities organize the region's vast spaces and connect them to the even larger sphere of the world economy. His survey moves from economic change to social and political response, examining the initial boom of the 1940s, the process of change in the following decades, and the ultimate impact of Western cities on their environments, on the Western regional character, and on national identity. Today, a.
Steadily increasing number of Western workers are engaged in rural industries, but Western cities continue to grow. As ecological and social crises begin to affect those cities, Abbott's study will become required reading for historians, geographers, sociologists, urban planners, and all citizens concerned with America's future.

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Cities and towns West (U.S.) History 20th century.
Cities and towns.
Stadt
Urbanisatie.
Geschichte 1940-1990.
West (U.S.) History 1890-1945.
West (U.S.) History 1945-
États-Unis (Ouest) Histoire 1890-1945.
États-Unis (Ouest) Histoire 1945-
West United States.
USA Weststaaten
United States History

History.

Modern American West.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 176328
Cote: ID F595.A24; ID:98-B2564
Statut: Disponible