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Download or read book Taking the Land to Make the City written by Mary P. Ryan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the United States is often told as a movement westward, beginning at the Atlantic coast and following farmers across the continent. But cities played an equally important role in the country’s formation. Towns sprung up along the Pacific as well as the Atlantic, as Spaniards and Englishmen took Indian land and converted it into private property. In this reworking of early American history, Mary P. Ryan shows how cities—specifically San Francisco and Baltimore—were essential parties to the creation of the Republics of the United States and Mexico. Baltimore and San Francisco share common roots as early trading centers whose coastal locations immersed them in an international circulation of goods and ideas. Ryan traces their beginnings back to the first human habitation of each area, showing how the juggernaut toward capitalism and nation-building could not commence until Europeans had taken the land for city building. She then recounts how Mexican ayuntamientos and Anglo American city councils pioneered a prescient form of municipal sovereignty that served as both a crucible for democracy and a handmaid of capitalism. Moving into the nineteenth century, Ryan shows how the citizens of Baltimore and San Francisco molded landscape forms associated with the modern city: the gridded downtown, rudimentary streetcar suburbs, and outlying great parks. This history culminates in the era of the Civil War when the economic engines of cities helped forged the East and the West into one nation.

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Download or read book Our Better Nature written by Philip J. Dreyfus and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to world-class metropolis, focusing on the interactions between the city and the land and on the generations of people who have transformed them both. Dreyfus examines the ways that San Franciscans remade the landscape to fit their needs, and how their actions reflected and affected their ideas about nature, from the destruction of wetlands and forests to the creation of Golden Gate and Yosemite parks, the Sierra Club, and later, the birth of the modern environmental movement. Today, many San Franciscans seek to strengthen the ties between cities and nature by pursuing more sustainable and ecologically responsible ways of life. Consistent with that urge, Our Better Nature not only explores San Francisco’s past but also poses critical questions about its future. Dreyfus asks us to reassess our connection to the environment and to find ways to redefine ourselves and our cities within nature. Only with such an attitude will San Francisco retain the magic that has always charmed residents and visitors alike.

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Download or read book Rincon de Las Salinas written by U. S. Attorney General's Office and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rincon De Las Salinas: Part of the Bernal Rancho, Fronting on the Bay, and Immediately South of the City of San Francisco, California This great city, the creation, as it were, Of yesterday, pregnant of her future destiny, instinct with vital energy, and teeming with her souls, must, within a short time, extend to and embrace the whole of the peninsula known as South San Francisco. The imperious laws Of na ture as well as Of trade, point in that direction it can grow in no other. The high surrounding hills on the west con fine it to a narrow strip on the bay, until it reaches the jut ting land Oi Las Salinas. This limit to lateral expansion, with much shallow water in its front, together with the chilling winds, which at certain seasons Of the year, draw through the Golden Gate, and sweep over the northern part Of the bay, disturbing the ever shifting sands upon which the city now stands, encourage the speedy occupa tion Of a site, which, by its bold shore, fixed soil, ample li mits, and the peculiar pos.tion and formation of the sur rounding hills, secure the very reverse of these annoyances, and point to it as the future centre Of the great commercial emporium of the Pacific. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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