Fighting Sprawl and City Hall

Resistance to Urban Growth in the Southwest

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6002169
AutoresBrad Luckingham, Michael F Logan
Año1997
Volumen102
Número2
Páginas563-563
Fecha de publicación1997-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2171014
OpenAlexW2012229634
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6

Serious resistance to urban growth in the Southwest arose at the beginning of the post World War II boom and persisted throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Most historians of the urban West ignore this early resistance. Even New Western historians truncate their studies of urbanization in the Southwest by assuming that serious opposition to development only appeared with the rise of environmentalism in the late 1960s. Urbanization in Tucson and Albuquerque proceeded in the face of constant protest. The expressions of opposition to urban expansion arose in conservative and libertarian political critiques and in ethnic resistance to urban renewal plans that targeted barrio areas. A loosely defined environmentalism appeared in these early forms of resistance as residents fought to preserve their lifestyle and native culture

Development economics · Dissent · Economic growth · Environmentalism · Geography · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Urban planning · Urban politics · Urban sprawl · Urbanization · American Environmental and Regional History · Law