The Description for this book, Cities of the American West: A History of Frontier Urban Planning, will be forthcoming.

Honolulu to Houston and from Fargo to Fairbanks to show how Western cities organize the region's vast spaces and connect them to the even larger sphere of the w

The author traces the evolution of early frontier towns at the beginning of Western expansion to the thriving urban centers they have become today.

From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents a

Spectacular modern aerial photographs of twenty-three of the towns dramatically illustrate changes to the urban scene and demonstrate the lasting influence of t