Desert Visions and the Making of Phoenix, 1860-2008
by Vandermeer, PhilipFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-02-15
Publisher(s): Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Summary
Philip VanderMeer examines the unlikely history of Phoenix, a city that by all environmental logic should not exist. Too hot, too dry, too remote would be a geographer's assessment of the locale; nevertheless, Phoenix has grown into the nation's fifth largest city. The author details how this unlikely city came into being and how it has sustained itself. To understand how such unusual growth occurred in such an improbable location, VanderMeer explores five major themes: the natural environment, urban infrastructure, economic development, social and cultural values, and public leadership.
Table of Contents
| Tables | p. xi |
| Figures | p. xii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The First Desert Vision: An American Eden | p. 9 |
| Civilizing the Desert: The Initial Phase | p. 11 |
| Physical Realities and Early Settlement | p. 11 |
| The Town That Agriculture Built | p. 16 |
| Building a Town | p. 20 |
| Establishing the Public City | p. 27 |
| Building a Hydraulic System: Controlling and Using Water | p. 29 |
| Climate and Health | p. 33 |
| Building the Modern City: Physical Form and Function | p. 37 |
| Phoenix in an Urban Context, 1890-1920 | p. 38 |
| The Changing Urban Form | p. 42 |
| The Changing Urban Form I: Downtown | p. 42 |
| The Changing Urban Form II: From Streetcar Suburbs to Automobile Suburbs | p. 48 |
| Remaking or Saving the Desert | p. 52 |
| Shaping the Modern American City: Social Construction | p. 57 |
| Making a Moral City | p. 57 |
| Making a Cultured City | p. 61 |
| A Lively City | p. 65 |
| Social Structures and Diverse Peoples | p. 68 |
| Governing the City | p. 71 |
| Selling the City | p. 76 |
| Crisis and Completion: The 1930s | p. 79 |
| Controlling the Climate | p. 83 |
| The Phoenix Economic Elite | p. 85 |
| Phoenix in 1940 | p. 88 |
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