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Andrew M. Busch, "City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas"
English | ISBN: 1469632632 | 2017 | 336 pages | PDF | 8 MB
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.