Fighting Sprawl and City Hall: Resistance to Urban Growth in the Southwest

by Michael F. Logan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816515530
• ISBN13: 9780816515530
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"