You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
None
None
Hearings held in Denver, Colo. April 22, 23, 1953; San Francisco, Calif. April 25, 1953; Spokane, Wash. April 27, 1953; Phoenix, Ariz.April 30, 1953.
The line is drawn in cities of the American West: on one side, chambers of commerce, developers, and civic boosters advocating economic growth; on the other, environmentalists and concerned citizens who want to limit what they see as urban sprawl. While this conflict is usually considered to have its origins in the rise of environmental activism during the late 1960s, opposition to urban growth in the Southwest began as early as the economic boom that followed World War II. Evidence of this resistance abounds, but it has been largely ignored by both western and urban historians. Fighting Sprawl and City Hall now sets the record straight, tracing the roots of antigrowth activism in two southw...