Titre et auteur:

Urban Texas : politics and development / edited by Char Miller and Heywood T. Sanders.

Édition:

1st ed.

Publication:

College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©1990.

Description:

xv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Série(s):

Texas A & M southwestern studies ; no. 8

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-204) and index.
The rise of urban Texas / Char Miller and David Johnson -- Frugal and sparing : interest groups, politics, and city building in San Antonio, 1870-85 / David R. Johnson -- Boss Tweed and V.O. Key in Texas / Amy Bridges -- Woman, religion, and reform in Galveston, 1880-1920 / Elizabeth Hayes Turner -- The emergence of a Black neighborhood : Houston's Fourth Ward, 1865-1915 / Cary D. Wintz -- Olmos Park and the creation of a suburban bastion, 1927-39 / Char Miller and Heywood Sanders -- Protecting community and property values : civic clubs in Houston, 1909-70 / Robert Fisher -- Dallas in the 1940s : the challenges and opportunities of defense mobilization / Robert B. Fairbanks -- Building a new urban infrastructure : the creation of postwar San Antonio / Heywood T. Sanders.
Also issued online.

Résumé:

A comparative and multidisciplintary perspective that explores the realtionships among interest groups and voting: religion, reform, gender, and race; civic clubs and suburbs; infrastructure and land development.

ISBN:

0890963975 (alk. paper)
9780890963975 (alk. paper)

Sujet:

Urbanization Texas History.
Metropolitan areas Texas History.
Real estate development Texas History.
Capitalists and financiers Texas History.
Urban policy Texas Citizen participation History Case studies.
Urbanisation Texas Histoire.
Promotion immobilière Texas Histoire.
Politique urbaine Texas Participation des citoyens Histoire Études de cas.
Capitalists and financiers.
Metropolitan areas.
Real estate development.
Urban policy Citizen participation.
Urbanization.
Texas.

Classification/genre:

Case studies.
History.

Vedettes secondaires:

Miller, Char, 1951-
Sanders, Heywood T., 1948-
Texas A & M southwestern studies ; no. 8.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 58403
Cote: ID:90-B6762
Statut: Disponible