James Michael Buckley

City of Wood

San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry

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Produktbeschreibung

How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781477330241
• ISBN-10: 1477330240
• Artikelnr.: 69921114

Autorenporträt

James Michael Buckley is an urban planner and historian.

Inhaltsangabe

1. List of Illustrations
2. Introduction: The Geography of the City of Wood
3. Part I: The Landscape of Lumber
* 1. City and Country: The Redwood Value Chain
4. Part II: Forest
* 2. “The Factory without a Roof”: Mills and Camps in the Redwood
Forest
* 3. Mill and Mansion: The Landscape of Capital and Labor in Eureka
5. Part III: Metropolis
* 4. The Redwood Value Chain in the City of Wood’s Urban Core
* 5. The Space of Capital in San Francisco
* 6. Lumber Workers and the Labor Landscape of San Francisco
6. Part IV: Region
* 7. A Revolution in Distribution and Production
* 8. Constructing a Modern Industrial Community: Company Towns in the
Redwoods
* 9. Conclusion: The Architecture of the City of Wood
7. Acknowledgments
8. Notes
9. Index