Urban Texas: Politics and Development
- ISBN-10
- 0890963975
- ISBN-13
- 9780890963975
- Category
- Social Science / General
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Texas A&M University Press
- Authors
- Char Miller, Heywood T. Sanders
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.
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Other editions
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- 1998
- 181 pages
- Paperback
- LBJ School, UT Austin
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