Big Sur : the making of a prized California landscape

Big Sur : the making of a prized California landscape /

"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...

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Main Author: Brooks, Shelley Alden, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Subjects:
2000-2099
Landscapes > California > Big Sur > 21st century.
Economic development > California > Big Sur > 21st century.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Landscapes
Economic development
Ecology
Big Sur (Calif.) > Environmental conditions > 21st century.
Big Sur (Calif.)
Big Sur Coast National Scenic Area (Calif.)
California > Big Sur Coast National Scenic Area
California > Big Sur
1930s.
20th century.
21st century.
american history.
ansel adams.
artists.
big sur.
california coast.
california.
coastline.
development.
economic development.
economy.
environment.
mid 20th century.
monterey county.
natural world.
pacific coast.
pastoral.
private preservation.
public preservation.
real estate.
robinson jeffers.
urban development.
western united states.
western world.
westward expansion.
wilderness.
writers.
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Table of 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.

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