"Gourmet's" Quick Kitchen by "Gourmet"

"Gourmet's" Quick Kitchen by "Gourmet"

Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude explores the transformation of the largest desert in North America, the Great Basin, into America's last urban frontier. In recent decades Las Vegas, Reno, Salt Lake City, and Boise have become the anchors for sprawling metropolitan regions. This population explosion has been fueled by the maturing of Las Vegas as the nation's entertainment capital, the rise of Reno as a magnet for multitudes of California expatriates, the development of Salt Lake City's urban corridor along the Wasatch Range, and the growth of Boise's celebrated high-tech economy and hip urban culture.

The blooming of cities in a fragile desert region poses a host of environmental challenges. The policies required to manage their impact, however, often collide with an entrenched political culture that has long resisted cooperative or governmental effort. The alchemical mixture of three ingredients--cities, aridity, and a libertarian political outlook--makes the Great Basin a compelling place to study. This book addresses a pressing question: Are large cities ultimately sustainable in such a fragile environment?

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ISBN 13	9780679452577
ISBN 10	0679452575
Title	"Gourmet's" Quick Kitchen
Author	Gourmet Magazine Editors
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1996-08-13
Number of pages	208
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