| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3 | The History Cooperative

*The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area*. By Richard A. Walker. Foreword by William Cronon. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xxv + 378 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00, £17.99.)
This is a well-intended work, "meant to help those who live in the San Francisco Bay Area appreciate what they have and what they have done" (p. xvii). In some respects, the author, a professor of geography and chairman of the California Studies Center at the University of California, Berkeley, succeeds quite well. In others, however, he falls short.	1
On the plus side, The Country in the City provides significant data regarding the protection of open space by government and non-government jurisdictions. More important, it shows it was no easy task: "The making of the Bay Area's civic greensward has been a long and arduous process, built up over decades and fought over acre by acre" (p. 4).	. . .

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