| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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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. xii, 228 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8229-4294-1.)
Yin and yang. Oil and water. Fire and ice. To their respective residents, no two cities could be more different than Phoenix and Tucson. Inhabitants of Arizona's capital city derisively refer to that part of the state south of the Gila River as Baja Arizona. Tucsonans return the favor by calling Phoenix a far eastern suburb of Los Angeles. Despite the bad blood, Oklahoma State University professor Michael F. Logan finds the two cities share more similarities than differences.	1
Desert Cities is a comparative biography of Arizona's two principal urban centers. Phoenix, the nation's fifth largest city, with a population of 1.5 million, is at the heart of a major metropolitan area in central Arizona. Tucson, the thirty-second largest city in the nation, with 518,000 inhabitants, dominates southern Arizona. Logan provides a succinct look at the history of the two cities, starting with the prehistoric era and continuing to the present. Eight chapters cover events prior to 1890, from 1890–1940, and from 1940 onward. The prime motivation for publishing the book was to compile prior research into one location for ease of comparison.	. . .

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