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Big Sur : the making of a prized California landscape
- Title
- Big Sur : the making of a prized California landscape / Shelley Alden Brooks.
- Author
- Brooks, Shelley Alden, 1979-
- Publication
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 261 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Big Sur embodies much of what has defined California since the mid twentieth century. A remote, inaccessible, and undeveloped pastoral landscape until 1937, Big Sur quickly became a cultural symbol of California and the West, as well as a home to the ultra-wealthy. This transformation was due in part to writers and artists such as Robinson Jeffers and Ansel Adams, who created an enduring mystique for this coastline. But Big Sur's prized coastline is also the product of the pioneering efforts of residents and Monterey County officials who forged a collaborative public/private preservation model for Big Sur that foreshadowed the shape of California coastal preservation in the twenty-first century. Big Sur's well-preserved vistas and high-end real estate situate this coastline between American ideals of development and the wild. It is a space that challenges the way most Americans think of nature, its relationship to people, and what in fact makes a place "wild." This book highlights today's complex and ambiguous intersections of class, the environment, and economic development through the lens of an iconic California landscape."--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Economic development
- Landscapes
- Big Sur (Calif.)
- Ecology
- Big Sur Coast National Scenic Area (Calif.)
- Big Sur (Calif.) > Environmental conditions > 21st century
- California > Big Sur Coast National Scenic Area
- Economic development > California > Big Sur > 21st century
- Landscapes > California > Big Sur > 21st century
- California > Big Sur
- 2000-2099
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Jeffers' Country -- Nature's highway -- Big Sur: utopia, U.S.A.? -- Open-space at continent's end -- The influence of the counter-culture, community, and State -- The "battle" for Big Sur, or debating the national environmental ethic -- Defining the value of California's coastline -- Epilogue: millionaires and beaches: the socio-political economics of California coastal preservation in the twenty-first century.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-11353
- ISBN
- 9780520294417
- 0520294416
- 9780520294424
- 0520294424
- LCCN
- 2017015969
- OCLC
- 976253271
- Author
- Brooks, Shelley Alden, 1979- author.
- Title
- Big Sur : the making of a prized California landscape / Shelley Alden Brooks.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-11353