City in a garden : environmental transformations and racial justice in twentieth-century Austin, Texas / Andrew M. Busch.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Busch, Andrew M. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Sustainable urban development > Social aspects > Texas > Austin. City planning > Environmental aspects > Texas > Austin. City planning > Social aspects > Texas > Austin. HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General. City planning > Environmental aspects City planning > Social aspects Race relations Austin (Tex.) > History. Austin (Tex.) > Race relations. Texas > Austin Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

The trouble with green
A mighty bulwark against the blind and raging forces of nature: harnessing the river
A distinct color line mutually conceded: race, natural hazards, and the geography of Austin before World War I
A mecca for the cultivated and wealthy: progressivism, race, and geography after World War I
The playground of the Southwest: water, consumption, and natural abundance in postwar Austin
Industry without smokestacks: knowledge labor, the University of Texas, and suburban Austin
Building a city of upper-middle class citizens: urban renewal and racial limits on liberalism
More and more enlightened citizens: environmental progressivism and Austin's emergent identity
Technopolis: the machine threatens the garden
Of toxic tours and what makes Austin, Austin: battles for the garden, battles for the city
From garden to city on a hill: the emergency of green urbanity.

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