| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.3

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Book Review

Desert Cities: The Environmental History of Phoenix and Tucson. By Michael F. Logan. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. x + 228 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $29.85.

Michael Logan seamlessly integrates environmental, urban, and western history in a provocative story about the rivalry between Arizona's cities. Logan discusses the entrepreneurial initiative that typically defines urban histories, but highlights other factors that explain divergent growth trajectories: the natural environment and the communities' cultural and ethnic compositions. Phoenix benefits from the Salt River, which flows at a rate four times greater than Tucson's Santa Cruz River. Tucson lacks a dam site similar to the ones Phoenicians enjoy and relies on groundwater. Moreover, "during a critical juncture in the cities' development at the turn of the twentieth century, the Hispanic nature of Tucson contrasted with the Anglo nature of Phoenix" (p. 5).

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