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Tables xi
Figures xii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Part I The First Desert Vision: An American Eden 9
1 Civilizing the Desert: The Initial Phase 11
Physical Realities and Early Settlement 11
The Town That Agriculture Built 16
Building a Town 20
Establishing the Public City 27
Building a Hydraulic System: Controlling and Using Water 29
Climate and Health 33
2 Building the Modern City: Physical Form and Function 37
Phoenix in an Urban Context, 1890-1920 38
The Changing Urban Form 42
The Changing Urban Form I: Downtown 42
The Changing Urban Form II: From Streetcar Suburbs to Automobile Suburbs 48
Remaking or Saving the Desert 52
3 Shaping the Modern American City: Social Construction 57
Making a Moral City 57
Making a Cultured City 61
A Lively City 65
Social Structures and Diverse Peoples 68
Governing the City 71
Selling the City 76
Crisis and Completion: The 1930s 79
Controlling the Climate 83
The Phoenix Economic Elite 85
Phoenix in 1940 88
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