Fighting Sprawl and City Hall

Resistance to Urban Growth in the Southwest

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6002169
AutoresBrad Luckingham, Michael F Logan
Ano1997
Volume102
Fascículo2
Páginas563-563
Data de publicação1997-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2171014
OpenAlexW2012229634
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6

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