Sunbelt Cities : : Politics and Growth since World War II / / ed. by Bradley Robert Rice, Richard M. Bernard.
Between 1940 and 1980, the Sunbelt region of the United States grew in population by 112 percent, while the older, graying Northeast and Midwest together grew by only 42 percent. Phoenix expanded by an astonishing 1,138 percent. San Diego, Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth, Tampa, Miami, and Atlanta quadru...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1983 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 ATLANTA: IF DIXIE WERE ATLANTA
- 3 MIAMI: THE ETHNIC CAULDRON
- 4 NEW ORLEANS: SUNBELT IN THE SWAMP
- 5 TAMPA: FROM HELL HOLE TO THE GOOD LIFE
- 6 DALLAS-FORT: WORTH MARKETING THE METROPLEX
- 7 HOUSTON: THE GOLDEN BUCKLE OF THE SUNBELT
- 8 OKLAHOMA: CITY BOOMING SOONER
- 9 SAN ANTONIO: THE VICISSITUDES OF BOOSTERISM
- 10 ALBUQUERQUE: CITY AT A CROSSROADS
- 11 LOS ANGELES: IMPROBABLE LOS ANGELES
- 12 PHOENIX THE DESERT METROPOLIS
- 13 SAN DIEGO: THE ANTI-CITY
- CONTRIBUTORS