No Communication with the Sea: Searching for an Urban Future in the Great Basin

by Tim Sullivan

Few other places in the United States are as high, dry, sparsely inhabited--and urbanized--as the Great Basin of Utah and Nevada. The great majority of the population of this rapidly growing region lives in the two metropolitan areas at its edges, Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Front, and Reno and the Truckee Meadows. These cities embody the allure and the challenge of the contemporary American West, deemed by some "The New American Heartland." No...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816528950
• ISBN13: 9780816528950
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"