Author: MARGOT PATTERSON DOSS
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
PATHS OF GOLD IN AND AROUND THE GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL RECREATION AREA
Author: MARGOT PATTERSON DOSS
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Presidio of San Francisco, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California
Author: Erwin N. Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Travelers' Tales San Francisco
Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 9781885211859
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
From the Pacific surf to Nob Hill to Chinatown, the legendary City by the Bay comes to life in this diverse collection of essays celebrating America's favorite playground. Praise the Lord at Glide Memorial Church, skate through the wonders of Golden Gate Park, discover culinary delights in the Mission, and relive the days of the gold rush.
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 9781885211859
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
From the Pacific surf to Nob Hill to Chinatown, the legendary City by the Bay comes to life in this diverse collection of essays celebrating America's favorite playground. Praise the Lord at Glide Memorial Church, skate through the wonders of Golden Gate Park, discover culinary delights in the Mission, and relive the days of the gold rush.
The Country in the City
Author: Richard A. Walker
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Presidio of San Francisco
Author: Erwin N. Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
Book Description
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
Book Description
Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Muir Woods National Monument
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Golden Gate National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), Muir Woods National Monument, General Management Plan
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Point Reyes
Author: Dorothy L. Whitnah
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780899970561
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780899970561
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Farallon National Wildlife Refuge, California
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
Publisher:
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Category : Farallon National Wildlife Refuge (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farallon National Wildlife Refuge (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description