City of Wood: San Francisco and the architecture of the redwood lumber industry
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Beteilige Person: Buckley, James Michael (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Austin University of Texas Press 2024
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:Peter T. Flawn series in natural resources and environmental studies
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Abstract:"In City of Wood, architectural historian James Buckley explores San Francisco's rapid urban development as a product of the physical and economic transformation of the natural environment of the American West. San Francisco is best known as a product of the gold and silver that were mined from California's mountains and streams, but as Buckley shows, the city's growth was in fact fueled by a wide range of natural resources that could be converted into marketable commodities. City of Wood investigates the architecture of a typical Western resource industry--redwood lumber--to determine how the exploitation of California's natural resources shaped the built environment of both San Francisco and its broader hinterland"--
Umfang:xvi, 347 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm
ISBN:9781477330241
1477330240