Author: Mel Scott
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520055124
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Author: California. Legislature. Assembly
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1576

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Author: Commonwealth Club of California
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Author: Richard A. Walker
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295989734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431

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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.

Author: California. Legislature. Assembly
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1576

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Author: David A. Leighton
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Author: Robert W. Righter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195149475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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Author: John Sherman Porter
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 1616

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American government securities); 1928-53 in 5 annual vols.:[v.1] Railroad securities (1952-53. Transportation); [v.2] Industrial securities; [v.3] Public utility securities; [v.4] Government securities (1928-54); [v.5] Banks, insurance companies, investment trusts, real estate, finance and credit companies ( 1928-54)

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Category : American River (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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