Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930

by Terence Young

Book Overview

In 1865, when San Francisco's Daily Evening Bulletin asked its readers if it were not time for the city to finally establish a public park, residents had only private gardens and small urban squares where they could retreat from urban crowding, noise, and filth. Five short years later, city supervisors approved the creation of Golden Gate Park, the second largest urban park in America. Over the next sixty years, and particularly after 1900,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801874327
• ISBN13: 9780801874321
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"