Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. The Environmental Meaning of Austin
• Part One. People, Land, and Place
• Chapter 1. The Theory behind the Connections
• Part Two. The Landscape Emerges
• Chapter 2. The Landscape Emerges
• Chapter 3. Institutionalizing Environmental Concerns: City Government and City Politics
• Part Three. The Environmental Meaning of Austin
• Chapter 4. Of Neighborhoods and Environment: Contesting the Growth Machine
• Chapter 5. The Environmental Meaning as Banner: The Save Our Springs Coalition and the Green Machine
• Part Four. The Environmental City
• Chapter 6. The Environmental City
• Chapter 7. The Doing of It: Continuing the Environmental Meaning
• Methodological Appendix
• Notes
• Index

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A history of the environmental movement in Austin, Texas, that shows how it became a model for the national movement to build sustainable cities

About the Author

William Scott Swearingen, Jr., teaches Environmental Science and Policy, Urban Sociology, and Environmental Sociology at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. He has been involved in the environmental movement in Austin for two decades.