Author: Harold Armin McMillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parks
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A Study of Regional Recreation Planning in the San Francisco Bay Region
Author: Harold Armin McMillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parks
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
National Urban Recreation Study, San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose
Author: United States. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. Pacific Southwest RegionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oakland (Calif.) region
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The San Francisco Bay Area
Author: Mel ScottPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520055124
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The San Francisco Bay Area, Second Edition
Author: Mel ScottPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520323939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 981
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.
The Country in the City
Author: Richard A. WalkerPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295989734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
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.
Outdoor Recreation Action
Author: United States. Bureau of Outdoor RecreationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Outdoor recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Housing and Planning References
Author: Wildcat and San Pablo Creeks, Contra Costa County
Author: OCS Oil and Gas
Author: Council on Environmental Quality (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gas well drilling
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The San Francisco Bay Area
Author: Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description