| Urban Texas: Politics and Development Contributor(s): Miller, Char (Editor), Sanders, Heywood T. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0890963975 ISBN-13: 9780890963975 Publisher: Texas A&M University Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Political Science | American Government - State - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 307.760 |
| LCCN: 89-33948 |
| Series: Texas A & M Southwestern Studies (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.22" W x 9.1" (0.76 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The major cities of Texas have developed through a complex web of politics, society, and economics. To describe and explain the state's urban evolution, the contributors to Urban Texas use comparative and multidisciplinary perspectives that explore the relationships among interest groups and voting; religion, reform, gender, and race; civic clubs and suburbs; infrastructure and land development. Texas' cities have experienced boom and expansion, bust and depression. They have also been marked by inequity and disadvantage. Today's cities face not only the limits of a period of economic downturn, but also the inheritance of a history of bias and public-sector inactivity. The story of such forces, challenges the myths that surround Texas' explosive growth and probes the staggering costs that growth has entailed. |