Author: Mary E. HandelPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Farmland and Open Space Preservation in the Four North Bay Counties
Author: Mary E. HandelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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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.
Conflicts and Solutions when Agricultural Land Meets Urban Development
Author: Mary E. HandelFarmland Protection in the General Plan
Author: J. Drew FroeligerPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Transforming California
Author: Stephanie S. PincetlPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801873126
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
In Transforming California, Stephanie Pincetl argues that the transformation of nature in order to enhance economic development lies at the heart of much of the state's recent history. She sees late-twentieth-century California on a path of continued environmental degradation, gripped by cynicism about government. Transforming California describes the evolution of the state's institutions of government as they apply to land use and development, and it shows how land-use decisions affect people's quality of life and their daily interactions with each other and with their environment. Pincetl offers an alternative vision for the renewal of the democratic spirit and process in California and for a reconciliation with nature.
Farmland Policy in California's Central Valley
Author: Alvin D. SokolowPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Municipal Density and Farmland Protection
Author: Alvin David SokolowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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California Farmland and Urban Pressures
Author: Alvin David SokolowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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North San Pablo Bay Restoration and Reuse Project (North Bay Water Recycling Program)
Author: Saving American Farmland
Author: American Farmland TrustPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description