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Big Sur: The Making of a Prized California Landscape

Big Sur: The Making of a Prized California Landscape

Brooks, Shelley Alden

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EconomicsEnvironmental StudiesRegional: West

ISBN10: 0520294424
ISBN13: 9780520294424
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Oct 24 2017
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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 ultrawealthy. This transformation was due in part to writers and artists such as Robinson Jeffers and Ansel Adams, who created an enduring mystique for this coastline. But Big Sur's prized coastline is also the product of the pioneering efforts of residents and Monterey County officials who forged a collaborative public/private preservation model for Big Sur that foreshadowed the shape of California coastal preservation in the twenty-first century. Big Sur's well-preserved vistas and high-end real estate situate this coastline between American ideals of development and the wild. It is a space that challenges the way most Americans think of nature, of people's relationship to nature, and of what in fact makes a place wild. This book highlights today's intricate and ambiguous intersections of class, the environment, and economic development through the lens of an iconic California landscape.

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