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When the American West represented the country's frontier, many of its cities may have seemed little more than trading centers to serve the outlying populace. Now the nation's most open and empty region is also its most heavily urbanized, with 80 percent of Westerners living in its metropolitan areas. The process of urbanization that had already transformed the United States from a rural to an urban society between 1815 and 1930 has continued most clearly and completely in the modern West, where growth since 1940--spurred by mobilization for World War II--has constituted a distinct era in which Western cities have become national and even international pacesetters. The Metropolitan Frontier places this last half-century of Western history in its urban context, making it the first comprehensive overview of urban growth in the region. Integrating the urban experience of all nineteen Western states, Carl Abbott ranges for evidence from 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 world economy. His survey moves from economic change to social and political response, examining the initial boom of the 1940s, the process of change in the following decades, and the ultimate impact of Western cities on their environments, on the Western regional character, and on national identity.Today, a steadily decreasing number of Western workers are engaged in rural industries, but Western cities continue to grow. As ecological and social crises begin to affect those cities, Abbott's study will prove required reading for historians, geographers, sociologists, urban planners, and all citizens concerned with America's future.
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Abbott's pioneering study surveys the urban growth of the American West over the past half-century. It is a tour-de-force of interdisciplinary social science and makes a major contribution to fields as diverse as regional history, urban geography, and public policymaking. Abbott deftly organizes his sprawling topic into ten especially well written chapters. The opening pair of chapters treats the impact of WW II on urban industries and populations and the resulting politics of growth and city-building. The central chapters trace economic and demographic change and political responses from 1950 to 1990. Closing chapters consider the larger questions of urban environmental relationships and the impact of western cities on the region's character as well as on the national imagination. Physically, this is a handsome book whose maps, photos, tables, and reference sections nicely enhance the presentation. It is the leading overview of its subject and is very highly recommended for all academic and large public libraries. All levels. P. O. Muller; University of Miami
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From Bugsy Siegel's opening the Flamingo in Las Vegas in the 1920s to the development of San Francisco after the 1939 fair, Abbott (urban studies & planning, Portland State Univ.) has done a thorough job of researching and recounting the history and sociological evolution of cities in the American West. Photographs of cities and people help synthesize the reader's understanding of time and place. The cities of the American West are seen through a kaleidoscope of cultural, political, and historical images. However, the reader is at times made dizzy as the text moves backward and forward in time before the material can be digested. Recommended for academic libraries and policy planners.-- Keven Whalen, Montville Lib., N.J. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.