Metropolitan San Diego: How Geography and Lifestyle Shape a New Urban Environment

by Larry R. Ford

Book Overview

The San Diego of popular imagination is a lotus land of sun and surfers, a ruggedly beautiful region where Mexican barrios coexist with mountain villages and deserts sprawl as far as the eye can see. Functionally, if not officially, its reaches extend all the way to Tijuana, Mexico, giving it an unusual international distinction, as well as a heterogeneous population of nearly five million people. Covering more than 4,200 square miles, San Diego...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812218981
• ISBN13: 9780812218985
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.9"