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The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780295988153 |
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Publisher: | University of Washington Press |
Publication date: | 03/17/2008 |
Series: | Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books |
Pages: | 424 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally / William CrononPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: Saving Graces1. Out of the Woods: Stirrings of Conservation2. Fields of Gold: Resources at Close Quarters3. Moving Outdoors: Parks for the People4. The Upper West Side: Suburbia and Conservation5. The Green and the Blue: Saving the Bay and the Coast6. Encounters with the Arch-Modern: Regional Planning and Growth Control7. Fasten Your Greenbelt: Triumph and Trust Funds8. Sour Grapes: The Fight for the Wine Country9. Toxic Landscapes: Beyond Open Space10. Green Justice: Reclaiming the Inner CityConclusion: City and Country Reconciled?AppendixNotesBibliographyIndexWhat People are Saying About This
Richard Walker's The Country in the City describes how fifty years of suburban developers, greenbelt alliances, grapegrowers, dairy farmers, software startups, innercity antitoxics coalitions and others have shaped the San Francisco Bay Area as a patchwork of developed, reshaped, and protected space. This remarkable new classic also challenges not only conventional versions of the relationship between city and country, but the very definition of these two kinds of places.
"This story has never been fully told, and Richard Walker, who lived many of the battles while teaching the next generation of warriors at UC Berkeley, has finally pulled the story together. There aren't many academic works from which a local activist can profitably learn—this is one of them."
Richard Walker's The Country in the City describes how fifty years of suburban developers, greenbelt alliances, grapegrowers, dairy farmers, software startups, innercity antitoxics coalitions and others have shaped the San Francisco Bay Area as a patchwork of developed, reshaped, and protected space. This remarkable new classic also challenges not only conventional versions of the relationship between city and country, but the very definition of these two kinds of places.
Richard Walker has written a sparkling history of the greening of the Bay Area that does much more than tell a fascinating untold story. In the tradition of Raymond Williams, The Country in the City throws the whole relationship between city and country into a fresh light, one that is not only bracing but which illuminates a path forward for green politics everywhere.
"Walker has done a fantastic job of making both historical and contemporary urban environmental relationships engaging. The style is eloquent, pithy, and sometimes poetic. The Country in the City is an important contribution to urban environmental geography."