{"product_id":"the-country-in-the-city-richard-a-walker-9780295987019","title":"The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Western History Association's 2009 Hal K. Rothman Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the Western Nonfiction Contemporary category (2008).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Country in the City\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Walker tells the story of how the jigsaw geography of this greenbelt has been set into place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in a lively and accessible style, \u003ci\u003eThe Country in the City\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard A. Walker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295987014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295987019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.38w x 1.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Spur Awards - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScitech Book News\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2007 pg. 105","brand":"Richard A. Walker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48658837373183,"sku":"9780295987019","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-country-in-the-city-richard-a-walker-9780295987019","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}