Search Results for: How Cities Won The West

Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout t

The Description for this book, Cities of the American West: A History of Frontier Urban Planning, will be forthcoming.

When The Urban Frontier was first published it roused attention because it held that settlers made a concerted effort to bring established institutions and ways

Honolulu to Houston and from Fargo to Fairbanks to show how Western cities organize the region's vast spaces and connect them to the even larger sphere of the w

Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities—Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others—began shedding people and jobs. Today they are l