… US cities have twins immediately across the Mexican border and mirror images somewhat
more distant across the border … story of western North America rather than the western United …

… "The Metropolitan Frontier," in which he examines how western American cities have changed
… First, western cities are key economic and political centers that organize vast hinterlands …

… pattern of city domination that he proves for the Ohio Valley prevails elsewhere in the American
West must … destiny, and vowed that she would become the metropolis of a new empire.12 …

… city-building in the American West, Larsen found different conclusions. To be fair, he agreed
that cities were key to our understandings of the West. … a regional metropolis.8 Settlers in the …

… Given this situation, city and suburb in the American West must both be seen as fundamental
constituent elements of a new kind of city-"the metropolis"--that emerged first in the West …

… Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West, provides unique perspectives on
urban development in 19 Western … West, he considers urban change in the “historians' West,…

… religious authority that have commonly centered in a dominant metropolis.7 Meinig has
subsequently outlined the history of the American West in terms of the growth of six settlement …

… metropolitan regions are typically more compact and uniform. The wide-open spaces ringing
Western cities … Even Portland, Oregon, the Western city most like Eastern ones in its rainfall …

… Since then the new category of the standard metropolitan … the urban dimension of the American
West, even while in national … city threatens to subsitute for the frontier, or settlement of the …

… cities are networked into Pacific North.. west ones; and cities on both sides of the Mexican..American
border … study allows us to understand how the numerous cities of North America fit …