Greater Portland Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest Carl Abbott "A panoramic portrait."--Oregonian "Abbott masterfully layers different kinds of evidence to build a compelling argument. He possesses a dazzling command of sources. . . . His ability to find underlying themes among seemingly disparate examples is breathtaking."--Public Historian Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2001 It has been called one of the nation's most livable regions, ranked among the best managed cities in America, hailed as a top spot to work, and...
Greater Portland Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest Carl Abbott "A panoramic portrait."--Oregonian "Abbott masterfully layers di...
The San Diego of popular imagination is a lotus land of sun and surfers, a ruggedly beautiful region where Mexican barrios coexist with mountain villages and deserts sprawl as far as the eye can see. Functionally, if not officially, its reaches extend all the way to Tijuana, Mexico, giving it an unusual international distinction, as well as a heterogeneous population of nearly five million people. Covering more than 4,200 square miles, San Diego County encompasses a variety of ecologies, including the beach and coastal strip, lowlands and mesas, foothills, mountains, and desert terrain. In...
The San Diego of popular imagination is a lotus land of sun and surfers, a ruggedly beautiful region where Mexican barrios coexist with mountain vi...
Inhabitants of Phoenix tend to think small but live big. They feel connected to individual neighborhoods and communities but drive farther to get to work, feel the effects of the regional heat island, and depend in part for their water on snow packs in Wyoming. In "Metropolitan Phoenix," Patricia Gober explores the efforts to build a sustainable desert city in the face of environmental uncertainty, rapid growth, and increasing social diversity.
"Metropolitan Phoenix" chronicles the burgeoning of this desert community, including the audacious decisions that created a metropolis of 3.6...
Inhabitants of Phoenix tend to think small but live big. They feel connected to individual neighborhoods and communities but drive farther to get t...
Living within the influence of one of the largest and most important cities in the world, how does New Jersey define itself? Is it simply a region of commuters, or have communities created effective local governments and satisfying cultural activities for one of the most diverse populations in the country?
In the state with the country's densest population, the region known as North Jersey has sacrificed more than 30 percent of its land area to the vast web of roads and highways that carry more than 300,000 commuters to work in New York. Greater New Jersey probes challenges...
Living within the influence of one of the largest and most important cities in the world, how does New Jersey define itself? Is it simply a region ...
As a subtropical city and the southernmost metropolitan area in the United States, Miami has always lured both visitors and migrants from throughout the Americas. During its first half-century they came primarily from the American North, then from the Latin South, and eventually from across the hemisphere and beyond. But if Miami's seductive appeal is one half of the story, the other half is that few people have ever ended up staying there. Today, by many measures, Miami is one of the most transient of all major metropolitan areas in America. Miami: Mistress of the Americas tells the...
As a subtropical city and the southernmost metropolitan area in the United States, Miami has always lured both visitors and migrants from throughout t...
Over the past three decades, the economy of North Carolina's Research Triangle defined by the cities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill has been transformed from one dependent on agriculture and textiles to one driven by knowledge-based jobs in technology, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals. Now home to roughly 1.7 million people, the Research Triangle has attracted an influx of new residents from across the country and around the world while continuing to win praise for its high quality of life. At the region's center is the 7,000-acre Research Triangle Park, one of the nation's...
Over the past three decades, the economy of North Carolina's Research Triangle defined by the cities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill has been t...
Extending a hundred miles across south-central Ontario, Toronto is the fifth largest metropolitan area in North America, with the highest population density and the busiest expressway. At its core old Toronto consists of walkable neighborhoods and a financial district deeply connected to the global economy. Newer parts of the region have downtown centers linked by networks of arterial roads and expressways, employment districts with most of the region's jobs, and ethnically diverse suburbs where English is a minority language. About half the population is foreign-born the highest...
Extending a hundred miles across south-central Ontario, Toronto is the fifth largest metropolitan area in North America, with the highest populatio...
Driving Detroit The Quest for Respect in the Motor City George Galster "An insightful history of Detroit from its accidental birth to its tortured present."--Planning "An immensely readable and personal book. Underlying Galster's] fine analysis of how the city went from arsenal of democracy and engine of America's manufacturing might to its current state of terrible decay is a deep knowledge of its streets, its music, its history, and its people."--Urban Affairs "Driving Detroit is replete with interesting insights on the social history of one of America's most troubled...
Driving Detroit The Quest for Respect in the Motor City George Galster "An insightful history of Detroit from its accidental birth to its tortured pre...
