| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4

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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, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

At the turn of the twentieth century, urban rivalry had come to the territory of Arizona. The two rivals competing for prominence—Phoenix and Tucson—shared many characteristics and seemed to be on a similar path to growth and expansion. But, by the end of the century these two desert cities in many ways stood in contrast to one another. Tucson embraced its Old Pueblo image and celebrated its Hispanic legacy and desert setting, and Phoenix, as the heart of the Valley of the Sun, promoted its sunshine and mild winters while engineering the summer heat and in many cases the desert itself out of existence. In Desert Cities, Michael Logan sets out to answer the question: "How is it that such different perceptions of urban communities could develop regarding cities growing up so close to one another and occupying such similar physical settings, within such a brief span of time" (p. 2)?

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