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Transforming California : A Political History of Land Use and Development by Stephanie S. Pincetl (1999, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-100801861101
ISBN-139780801861109
eBay Product ID (ePID)186263
Product Key Features
Number of Pages440 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTransforming California : a Political History of Land Use and Development
Publication Year1999
SubjectPublic Policy / General, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Development / Economic Development, American Government / State
TypeTextbook
AuthorStephanie S. Pincetl
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Business & Economics, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight29.6 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN99-011398
Reviews"[Pincetl] has brought together in one place, pieced together from a rather huge and disparate literature, a thorough, even exhaustive indictment. All of us who care about California can only hope the book will be noticed and read."-- Economic Geography, "The author has mined a vast literature, her central thesis is original and provocative, and she makes many wise and perceptive observations. Transforming California will prove of great value to historians of twentieth-century America."-- Journal of American History, "This is a book of far-ranging interpretation and proscription; it is far more than a mere history of land use and development. Stephanie S. Pincetl... weaves a compelling historical narrative to bolster her case for a basic restructuring of California government and a redefinition of the meaning of citizenship."-- Southern California Quarterly, ''Stephanie Pincetl's Transforming California covers the previously neglected terrain of California's environmental history--a story which has been absolutely central to the narrative of resource exploitation in America and of some of the most far-sighted attempts to resist it. This is an extraordinarily useful and important book.''--Richard A. Walker, University of California, Berkeley ''Stephanie Pincetl has written a timely book. Transforming California provides important background to the current, untenable state of affairs in land use planning, not only in California but across the American West. Pincetl's work leads her to issue a call for renewed civic attention to the perils of environmental and landscape degradation.''--William Deverell, California Institute of Technology ''Pincetl's book provides a valuable background on 150 years of California's political and environmental history. It presents primers on a number ofthe most pressing natural resource issues...[and] offers some practical, challenging and timely ideas about how Californians can do a better job in the future.''--Kathryn Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle '' A thought-provoking work for environmental, urban, social, state, and regional historians.''--P.D. Travis, CHOICE ''[Stephanie S. Pincetl] has brought together in one place, pieced together from a rather huge and disparate literature, a thorough, even exhaustive indictment. All of us who care about California can only hope the book will be noticed and read.''--Don Mitchell, Economic Geography ''The author has mined a vast literature, her central thesis is original and provocative, and she makes many wise and perceptive observations. Transforming California will prove of great value to historians of twentieth-century America.''--Donald J. Pisani, Journal of American History, "A valuable background on 150 years of California's political and environmental history. It presents primers on a number of the most pressing natural resource issues... [and] offers some practical, challenging and timely ideas about how Californians can do a better job in the future."-- San Francisco Chronicle, "A thought-provoking work for environmental, urban, social, state, and regional historians." -- Choice
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal333.73/13/09794
SynopsisIn Transforming California, Stephanie Pincetl argues that the transformation of nature in order to enhance economic development lies at the heart of much of the state's recent history. She sees late-twentieth-century California on a path of continued environmental degradation, gripped by cynicism about government. Transforming California describes ......, The author argues that the transformation of nature in order to enhance economic development lies at the heart of much of California's late-20th century history. Stephanie Pincetl sees the state on a path of environmental degradation and gripped by cynicism about government. She describes how government land-use decisions affect people's quality of life and people's interactions with each other and with their environment., In Transforming California, Stephanie Pincetl argues that the transformation of nature in order to enhance economic development lies at the heart of much of the state's recent history. She sees late-twentieth-century California on a path of continued environmental degradation, gripped by cynicism about government. Transforming California describes the evolution of the state's institutions of government as they apply to land use and development, and it shows how land-use decisions affect people's quality of life and their daily interactions with each other and with their environment. Pincetl offers an alternative vision for the renewal of the democratic spirit and process in California and for a reconciliation with nature.
LC Classification NumberHD211.C2P56 1999
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