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The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism. By Hal K. Rothman. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. ii + 258 pp. Map, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.)
      Hal K. Rothman convincingly reveals with The New Urban Park a profound shift in the role of the National Park Service as a purveyor of the "principles of democracy" (p. 1). His contention counters a long-held criticism of the national parks as elitist enclaves, preserved for the few as mythical symbols of American exceptionalism, especially in the West. Rothman offers significant evidence of a new, participatory role for national park constituents, a group as diverse as is the population of San Francisco, the nearest city to the expansive Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA), the focus of this blueprint study of a national park. . . .
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