Richard A. Walker

The Country in the City (eBook, ePUB)

The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book tells how the Bay area got its green grove. Its most cherished environmentsÂ--Muir Woods, the Napa Valley, Point Reyes, the Carquinez StraitsÂ--have engendered some of the fiercest and most defining environmental battles in this region, and they make up the story recounted here.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295989730
• Artikelnr.: 44785407

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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