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The Country in the City – The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area de Richard A. Walker

The Country in the City – The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books

Autor Richard A. Walker, William Cronon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 mar 2008
Despite a population of 7 million people, the San Francisco Bay Area is more greensward than asphalt jungle, more open space than hardscape. The Country in the City tells the story of how the jigsaw geography of this greenbelt has been set into place.Richard A. Walker is professor of geography and chair of the California Studies Center at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include The New Social Economy: Reworking the Division of Labor and The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of California Agribusiness.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780295988153
ISBN-10: 0295988150
Pagini: 424
Ilustrații: 36 illustrations, 13 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: MV – University of Washington Press
Seria Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books

Recenzii

"Richard Walker has written a sparkling history of the greening of the Bay Area that does much more than tell a fascinating untold story. In the tradition of Raymond Williams, The Country in the City throws the whole relationship between city and country into a fresh light, one that is not only bracing but which illuminates a path forward for green politics everywhere." Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire"In The Country in the City, a history of local conservation and environmental activism, Walker delivers a deeply loving paean to this place where he grew up and has lived and worked and been a political activist all of his life." San Francisco Chronicle, Book Review"Walker has done in this book what essentially has never before been attempted by any other scholar for any other major American city: he has researched, analyzed, and narrated the evolving environmental politics of San Francisco from their origins in the nineteenth century to their explosive growth in the decades following the Second World War, right down to the present. . . . A first-rate piece of scholarship." from the Foreword by William Cronon

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Cuprins

Foreword: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally / William Cronon
Preface
Abbreviations

Introduction: Saving Graces

1. Out of the Woods: Stirrings of Conservation

2. Fields of Gold: Resources at Close Quarters

3. Moving Outdoors: Parks for the People

4. The Upper West Side: Suburbia and Conservation

5. The Green and the Blue: Saving the Bay and the Coast

6. Encounters with the Arch-Modern: Regional Planning and Growth Control

7. Fasten Your Greenbelt: Triumph and Trust Funds

8. Sour Grapes: The Fight for the Wine Country

9. Toxic Landscapes: Beyond Open Space

10. Green Justice: Reclaiming the Inner City

Conclusion: City and Country Reconciled?

Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Descriere

Looks at how San Francisco managed to save large areas of natural open space