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Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks.: Country in the City : The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area by Richard A. Walker (2007, Hardcover)

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PublisherUniversity of Washington Press

ISBN-100295987014

ISBN-139780295987019

eBay Product ID (ePID)57057945

Product Key Features

Number of Pages424 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameCountry in the City : the Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area

SubjectLife Sciences / Ecology, Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Landscape, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Environmental Conservation & Protection, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development

Publication Year2007

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaNature, Political Science, Architecture, Science, History

AuthorRichard A. Walker

SeriesWeyerhaeuser Environmental Bks.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight25.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2006-034211

Reviews"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 "Walker has done a fantastic job of making both historical and contemporary urban environmental relationships engaging. The style is eloquent, pithy, and sometimes poetic. The Country in the City is an important contribution to urban environmental geography."-Lisa Benton-Short, author of The Presidio, from Army Post to National Park, "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 "Walker has done a fantastic job of making both historical and contemporary urban environmental relationships engaging. The style is eloquent, pithy, and sometimes poetic. The Country in the City is an important contribution to urban environmental geography."--Lisa Benton-Short, author of The Presidio, from Army Post to National Park, "Walker has done a fantastic job of making both historical and contemporary urban environmental relationships engaging. The style is eloquent, pithy, and sometimes poetic. The Country in the City is an important contribution to urban environmental geography."--Lisa Benton-Short, author of The Presidio, from Army Post to National Park, 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, "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, Walker has done a fantastic job of making both historical and contemporary urban environmental relationships engaging. The style is eloquent, pithy, and sometimes poetic. The Country in the City is an important contribution to urban environmental geography.Lisa Benton-Short, author of The Presidio, from Army Post to National Park

TitleLeadingThe

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Table Of ContentForeword: 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

SynopsisThis is a positive political and environmental story about the various movements and groups who helped establish and defend the many greenbelts around San Francisco from the 19th century through the present., The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Despite a population of 7 million people, it is more greensward than asphalt jungle, more open space than hardscape. A vast quilt of countryside is tucked into the folds of the metropolis, stitched from fields, farms and woodlands, mines, creeks, and wetlands. In The Country in the City, Richard Walker tells the story of how the jigsaw geography of this greenbelt has been set into place. The Bay Areas civic landscape has been fought over acre by acre, an arduous process requiring popular mobilization, political will, and hard work. Its most cherished environmentsMount Tamalpais, Napa Valley, San Francisco Bay, Point Reyes, Mount Diablo, the Pacific coasthave engendered some of the fiercest environmental battles in the country and have made the region a leader in green ideas and organizations. This book tells how the Bay Area got its green grove: from the stirrings of conservation in the time of John Muir to origins of the recreational parks and coastal preserves in the early twentieth century, from the fight to stop bay fill and control suburban growth after the Second World War to securing conservation easements and stopping toxic pollution in our times. Here, modern environmentalism first became a mass political movement in the 1960s, with the sudden blooming of the Sierra Club and Save the Bay, and it remains a global center of environmentalism to this day. Green values have been a pillar of Bay Area life and politics for more than a century. It is an environmentalism grounded in local places and personal concerns, close to the heart of the city. Yet this vision of what a city should be has always been informedby liberal, even utopian, ideas of nature, planning, government, and democracy. In the end, green is one of the primary colors in the flag of the Left Coast, where green enthusiasms, like open space, are built into the fabric of urban life. Written in a lively and accessible style, The Country in the City will be of interest to general readers and environmental activists. At the same time, it speaks to fundamental debates in environmental history, urban planning, and geography., Winner of the Western History Association's 2009 Hal K. Rothman Award Finalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the Western Nonfiction Contemporary category (2008). The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Despite a population of 7 million people, it is more greensward than asphalt jungle, more open space than hardscape. A vast quilt of countryside is tucked into the folds of the metropolis, stitched from fields, farms and woodlands, mines, creeks, and wetlands. In The Country in the City , Richard Walker tells the story of how the jigsaw geography of this greenbelt has been set into place. The Bay Area's civic landscape has been fought over acre by acre, an arduous process requiring popular mobilization, political will, and hard work. Its most cherished environments--Mount Tamalpais, Napa Valley, San Francisco Bay, Point Reyes, Mount Diablo, the Pacific coast--have engendered some of the fiercest environmental battles in the country and have made the region a leader in green ideas and organizations. This book tells how the Bay Area got its green grove: from the stirrings of conservation in the time of John Muir to origins of the recreational parks and coastal preserves in the early twentieth century, from the fight to stop bay fill and control suburban growth after the Second World War to securing conservation easements and stopping toxic pollution in our times. Here, modern environmentalism first became a mass political movement in the 1960s, with the sudden blooming of the Sierra Club and Save the Bay, and it remains a global center of environmentalism to this day. Green values have been a pillar of Bay Area life and politics for more than a century. It is an environmentalism grounded in local places and personal concerns, close to the heart of the city. Yet this vision of what a city should be has always been informed by liberal, even utopian, ideas of nature, planning, government, and democracy. In the end, green is one of the primary colors in the flag of the Left Coast, where green enthusiasms, like open space, are built into the fabric of urban life. Written in a lively and accessible style, The Country in the City will be of interest to general readers and environmental activists. At the same time, it speaks to fundamental debates in environmental history, urban planning, and geography.

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