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Explores the transformation of the largest desert in North America, the Great Basin, into America's last urban frontier. The blooming of cities in a fragile desert region poses a host of environmental challenges. This book addresses a pressing question: are large cities ultimately sustainable in such a fragile environment?

Explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation.