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The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area

Richard Walker and William Cronon

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The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area Richard Walker and William Cronon "The Country in the City" is about the Bay Area and about all of our open space, all of our green areas in the Bay area, and how they became to be. It's kind of an inspiring tale about how all the land around here has been saved from development. There's sad stories of land being lost and there's also success stories of land being saved for the people. I liked in this book the story of the Berkeley Marina because that's somewhere where I go a lot, Cesar Chavez Park. The history of it is that it was a landfill for Berkeley, by dumping their trash there year after year after year and it became kind of a build up land mass out in the Bay a little bit. Because it's such an incredible place to be now, you'd never guess that it was an old dump. The main theme that Richard Walker makes or main point that he makes is that every single green space that we enjoy in the Bay Area, was fought for by a group of citizens or an organization that was formed by groups of citizens. As he chronicles each group in the history of it and goes through the whole book, it becomes almost tedious after a while. Anyone in the Bay Area who goes to these parks it's fascinating to know the history of them and it gives you a great appreciation. I'd give "The Country in the City" four stars.