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Author: Ambient Images, Inc Publisher: ISBN: 9781610604819 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 124
Book Description
In Our San Diego, the talented photographers of Ambient Images present the sights and scenes of one of the most beautiful cities in the nation. Offering sand and sun, arts and architecture, San Diego is a rapidly growing city with myriad attractions. Photographs celebrate the city’s rich history and diverse cultures, its parades and festivals, its beaches and parks, and landmark attractions such as the San Diego Zoo and SeaWorld. Other highlights include Balboa Park, the historic Gaslamp Quarter, Mission San Diego de Alcalá, Mission Bay, the Hotel Coronado, and Old Point Loma Lighthouse.
Author: Ambient Images, Inc Publisher: ISBN: 9781610604819 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 124
Book Description
In Our San Diego, the talented photographers of Ambient Images present the sights and scenes of one of the most beautiful cities in the nation. Offering sand and sun, arts and architecture, San Diego is a rapidly growing city with myriad attractions. Photographs celebrate the city’s rich history and diverse cultures, its parades and festivals, its beaches and parks, and landmark attractions such as the San Diego Zoo and SeaWorld. Other highlights include Balboa Park, the historic Gaslamp Quarter, Mission San Diego de Alcalá, Mission Bay, the Hotel Coronado, and Old Point Loma Lighthouse.
Author: Andrew Hudson Publisher: Photo Tour Coffee-Table Books ISBN: 9780965308786 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 70
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A beautiful souvenir book of "America's Finest City". Large-format color pictures are accompanied with historic quotes and information. Includes the San Diego Zoo, Sea World, Cabrillo National Monument and more. 70 color photos.
Author: Steven P. Erie Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804782180 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 536
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The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome national trends with origins in the 1970s and 1980s. Growing voter distrust with government, a demand for services but not taxes to pay for them, a sharp decline in enlightened leadership and effective civic watchdogs, and dysfunctional political institutions have all contributed to the current governance malaise. Until recently, San Diego, California—America's 8th largest city—seemed immune to such systematic governance disorders. This sunny beach town entered the 1990s proclaiming to be "America's Finest City," but in a few short years its reputation went from "Futureville" to "Enron-by-the-Sea." In this eye-opening and telling narrative, Steven P. Erie, Vladimir Kogan, and Scott A. MacKenzie mix policy analysis, political theory, and history to explore and explain the unintended but largely predictable failures of governance in San Diego. Using untapped primary sources—interviews with key decision makers and public documents—and benchmarking San Diego with other leading California cities, Paradise Plundered examines critical dimensions of San Diego's governance failure: a multi-billion dollar pension deficit; a chronic budget deficit; inadequate city services and infrastructure; grandiose planning initiatives divorced from dire fiscal realities; an insulated downtown redevelopment program plagued by poorly-crafted public-private partnerships; and, for the metropolitan region, inadequate airport and port facilities, a severe underinvestment in firefighting capacity despite destructive wildfires, and heightened Mexican border security concerns. Far from a sunny story of paradise and prosperity, this account takes stock of an important but understudied city, its failed civic leadership, and poorly performing institutions, policymaking, and planning. Though the extent of these failures may place San Diego in a league of its own, other cities are experiencing similar challenges and political changes. As such, this tale of civic woe offers valuable lessons for urban scholars, practitioners, and general readers concerned about the future of their own cities.
Author: Richard F. Pourade Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 308
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Describes how the Spanish Dons wrested the Californian lands from the missionaries and lost them to the American pioneers with the start of the gold rush.
Author: Maryelizabeth Hart Publisher: Akashic Books ISBN: 1617750441 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 289
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Southern California is not all sun, sand, and surf in this gripping collection of noir tales from T. Jefferson Parker, Don Winslow, Maria Lima, and others. San Diego is home to miles of beaches, Balboa Park, a world-famous zoo, and some of the country’s most expensive home and resort real estate. Yet the city also houses a few items that aren’t actively promoted by the visitor’s bureau: a number of the country’s most corrupt politicians, border-related crimes, terrorists, and the occasional earthquakes. A noir feast! In the fifty-plus years since Raymond Chandler set Playback in Esmeralda, his name for La Jolla, the population has grown by more than a million, and crime has proliferated as well. San Diego of the past and the present offers the book’s contributors a rich selection of settings, from the cross on Mount Soledad to the piers of Ocean Beach, and perpetrators and victims from the residents of its wealthiest enclaves to the inhabitants of its segregated barrios. San Diego Noir includes stories by T. Jefferson Parker, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Martha C. Lawrence, Diane Clark & Astrid Bear, Debra Ginsberg, Morgan Hunt, Ken Kuhlken, Taffy Cannon, Don Winslow, Cameron Pierce Hughes, Lisa Brackmann, Gabriel R. Barillas, Gar Anthony Haywood, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Maria Lima. “When it’s done right, noir is a darkly delicious thrill: smart, sharp-tongued, surprising. The knife goes in at the end with a twist. San Diego Noir, a new 15-story collection by some of the region’s best writers, has all that going for it, and the steady supply of hometown references makes it even more fun.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune
Author: San Diego Zoo Publisher: WorthyKids ISBN: 9780824955434 Category : Animals Languages : en Pages : 0
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Here is a wealth of information and facts in an easy-to-use and friendly format. There are no long pargraphs for kids to wade through. Instead, scientific information is presented in short blocks attracttively arranged on the pages with color photos of animals. Here are basic facts on each animal, such as height, weight, location, and habitat. Here also are fun facts. From cover to cover, this book is full of facts, packed with photos, but absolutely fun to read and look at. Kids of all ages will use this big book for school reports and for browsing. Parents who want to help their child in science will love this book as much as the kids. And the San Diego Zoo logo gives authority to the text.
Author: Chris Fisher Publisher: Lone Pine Pub ISBN: 9781551051024 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 159
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These attractive guides identify the birds most likely to be seen in your city's backyards, streets and parks. Introduces the fascinating and popular pastime of bird-watching. Includes advice on building feeders and birdhouses. Color illustrations help you identify birds quickly while the text provides interesting information about each bird. These books are easy-to-use references for the urban birdwatcher.
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