{"product_id":"9781477334669-city-of-wood","title":"City of Wood","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSan Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2025 J.B. Jackson Book Prize, University of Virginia Center for Cultural Landscapes\u003cbr\u003e2025 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers\u003cbr\u003e2025 Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture Forum\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCalifornia’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the “instant city” of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural resources of the American West. \u003ci\u003eCity of Wood\u003c\/i\u003e examines how capitalists and workers logged the state’s vast redwood forests to create the financial capital and construction materials needed to build the regional metropolis of San Francisco. Architectural historian \u003cb\u003eJames Michael Buckley\u003c\/b\u003e investigates the remote forest and its urban core as two poles of a regional “city.” This city consisted of a far-reaching network of spaces, produced as company owners and workers arrayed men and machines to extract resources and create human commodities from the region’s rich natural environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining labor, urban, industrial, and social history, \u003ci\u003eCity of Wood\u003c\/i\u003e employs a variety of sources—including contemporary newspaper articles, novels, and photographs—to explore the architectural landscape of lumber, from backwoods logging camps and company towns in the woods to busy lumber docks and the homes of workers and owners in San Francisco. By imagining the redwood lumber industry as a single community spread across multiple sites—a “City of Wood”—Buckley demonstrates how capitalist resource extraction links different places along the production value chain. The result is a paradigm shift in architectural history that focuses not just on the evolution of individual building design across time, but also on economic connections that link the center and periphery across space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57999878029686,"sku":"9781477334669","price":34.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41570120_86148fa1-71ee-46fc-8a59-4b873bd13cb3.jpg?v=1781146939","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781477334669-city-of-wood","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}