City in a Garden

Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas

Andrew M. Busch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2017
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3264-3 (ISBN)

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The natural beauty of Austin, Texas, has always been central to the city's identity. From the beginning, city leaders, residents, planners, and employers consistently imagined Austin as a natural place, highlighting the region's environmental attributes as they marketed the city and planned for its growth. Yet, as Austin modernized and attracted an educated and skilled labor force, the demand to preserve its natural spaces was used to justify economic and racial segregation. This effort to create and maintain a ""city in a garden"" perpetuated uneven social and economic power relationships throughout the twentieth century.

In telling Austin's story, Andrew M. Busch invites readers to consider the wider implications of environmentally friendly urban development. While Austin's mainstream environmental record is impressive, its minority groups continue to live on the economic, social, and geographic margins of the city. By demonstrating how the city's midcentury modernization and progressive movement sustained racial oppression, restriction, and uneven development in the decades that followed, Busch reveals the darker ramifications of Austin's green growth.

Andrew M. Busch is senior lecturer and program director of American studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.07.2017
Zusatzinfo	19 halftones, 1 maps
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 233 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Technik ► Architektur
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-4696-3264-0 / 1469632640
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-3264-3 / 9781469632643
Zustand	Neuware