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Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Other Half of the Story -- Part 1. Tucson -- 1. The Pro-Growth Partnership: ""The Optimistic Assumption"" -- 2. Political Resistance: ""The Laws Serve the Majority"" -- 3. Ethnic Resistance: ""The Wrong Side of the Tracks"" -- 4. Environmental Resistance: ""Bottomless Towers"" -- 5. Tucson Epilogue: Monkey Wrenches and Mountain Lions -- Part 2. Albuquerque -- 6. The Pro-Growth Partnership: ""Step Lively"" -- 7. Political Resistance: ""Land, Lots of Land"" -- 8. Ethnic Resistance: ""The Enchilada Floor

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Desert Cities -- I. Origins: Prehistory-1890 -- 1. Two Rivers -- 2. Dos Rios -- 3. Indian Rings, Ditches, and Railroads -- II. Rivals: 1890-1930 -- 4. The Duty of Water and Agrarian Rivalry -- 5. Where Winter Never Comes, and the Mescalian Could Imbibe His Fill -- 6. Depression Proof -- III. Chosen Paths: 1940-1990 -- 7. The Air-Conditioned Capital of the World -- 8. Leaving Tucson? Take a Friend -- Epilogue: Fountains in the Desert -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.