| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.4

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Book Review

Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850–1930. By Terence Young. Balti-more: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xvi + 260 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $45.00
The study of human-nature relationships has a long-standing tradition in the field of geography. In Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850–1930, geographer Terence Young explores this relationship as embodied in the development of the American urban parks movement, and specifically the parks in San Francisco, California. One of the important contributions of the book is to show that the way in which society interprets "nature" is partly reflected in debates about the design and purpose of urban parks. This book presents a well-written and highly readable analysis of the environmental history of urban parks and the complex and dynamic social and moral forces that created them (p. xii).	1
The book has two sections. The first section provides an overview of the theoretical and historical issues underlying the American urban park movement between 1850–1930. The movement developed in two phases: the romantic (1850–1870) and rationalistic (1870–1930).	. . .

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