
About this book
"In this book, one of our premier environmental historians looks at the new phenomenon of urban parks, focusing on San Francisco's Golden Gate National Recreation Area as a prototype for the twenty-first century. Cobbled together from public and private lands in a politically charged arena, the GGNRA represents a new direction for parks as it highlights the long-standing tension within the National Park Service between preservation and recreation."--Jacket.
Subjects
HistoryCase studiesUrban ecologyEnvironmentalismUrban parksUrban ecology (Sociology)California, social conditions