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- ISBN: 9780767413459 | 0767413458
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 8/27/1999
The second edition of this popular, topically arranged text is an account of the most vital, significant, and fascinating aspects of California’s rich physical and cultural landscape.
1. Lotus Land Revisited Travelogue Tales and Romantic Musings California Through the Eyes of the Spaniards -Early American Images -Literary Visions -A Taste of Today Diversity in Perspective -Environmental Diversity -Cultural Diversity -Population Trends Isolation or Uniqueness 2. The Unstable Landscape A Quartet of Deadly Temblors: The San Fernando, Whittier Narrows, Loma Prieta, and Northridge Quakes Faults, Folklore, and Fact California Adrift -Plate Tectonics -A Bermuda Triangle for California and Rerouting of the San Andreas? 3. Landorm Provinces and Their People The Peninsular Ranges -The Interior Highlands -The Los Angeles Basin -The Islands The Transverse Ranges -Onshore -Offshore The Coast Ranges -The Northern Faults -Valley Settlement -Landlocked Counties The Klamath Mountains -Erosion and Deposition -Getting Away from It All The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
California Through the Eyes of the Spaniards -Early American Images -Literary Visions -A Taste of Today Diversity in Perspective -Environmental Diversity -Cultural Diversity -Population Trends Isolation or Uniqueness 2. The Unstable Landscape A Quartet of Deadly Temblors: The San Fernando, Whittier Narrows, Loma Prieta, and Northridge Quakes Faults, Folklore, and Fact California Adrift -Plate Tectonics -A Bermuda Triangle for California and Rerouting of the San Andreas? 3. Landorm Provinces and Their People The Peninsular Ranges -The Interior Highlands -The Los Angeles Basin -The Islands The Transverse Ranges -Onshore -Offshore The Coast Ranges -The Northern Faults -Valley Settlement -Landlocked Counties The Klamath Mountains -Erosion and Deposition -Getting Away from It All The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Literary Visions -A Taste of Today Diversity in Perspective -Environmental Diversity -Cultural Diversity -Population Trends Isolation or Uniqueness 2. The Unstable Landscape A Quartet of Deadly Temblors: The San Fernando, Whittier Narrows, Loma Prieta, and Northridge Quakes Faults, Folklore, and Fact California Adrift -Plate Tectonics -A Bermuda Triangle for California and Rerouting of the San Andreas? 3. Landorm Provinces and Their People The Peninsular Ranges -The Interior Highlands -The Los Angeles Basin -The Islands The Transverse Ranges -Onshore -Offshore The Coast Ranges -The Northern Faults -Valley Settlement -Landlocked Counties The Klamath Mountains -Erosion and Deposition -Getting Away from It All The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Diversity in Perspective -Environmental Diversity -Cultural Diversity -Population Trends Isolation or Uniqueness 2. The Unstable Landscape A Quartet of Deadly Temblors: The San Fernando, Whittier Narrows, Loma Prieta, and Northridge Quakes Faults, Folklore, and Fact California Adrift -Plate Tectonics -A Bermuda Triangle for California and Rerouting of the San Andreas? 3. Landorm Provinces and Their People The Peninsular Ranges -The Interior Highlands -The Los Angeles Basin -The Islands The Transverse Ranges -Onshore -Offshore The Coast Ranges -The Northern Faults -Valley Settlement -Landlocked Counties The Klamath Mountains -Erosion and Deposition -Getting Away from It All The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Cultural Diversity -Population Trends Isolation or Uniqueness 2. The Unstable Landscape A Quartet of Deadly Temblors: The San Fernando, Whittier Narrows, Loma Prieta, and Northridge Quakes Faults, Folklore, and Fact California Adrift -Plate Tectonics -A Bermuda Triangle for California and Rerouting of the San Andreas? 3. Landorm Provinces and Their People The Peninsular Ranges -The Interior Highlands -The Los Angeles Basin -The Islands The Transverse Ranges -Onshore -Offshore The Coast Ranges -The Northern Faults -Valley Settlement -Landlocked Counties The Klamath Mountains -Erosion and Deposition -Getting Away from It All The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Isolation or Uniqueness 2. The Unstable Landscape A Quartet of Deadly Temblors: The San Fernando, Whittier Narrows, Loma Prieta, and Northridge Quakes Faults, Folklore, and Fact California Adrift -Plate Tectonics -A Bermuda Triangle for California and Rerouting of the San Andreas? 3. Landorm Provinces and Their People The Peninsular Ranges -The Interior Highlands -The Los Angeles Basin -The Islands The Transverse Ranges -Onshore -Offshore The Coast Ranges -The Northern Faults -Valley Settlement -Landlocked Counties The Klamath Mountains -Erosion and Deposition -Getting Away from It All The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
A Quartet of Deadly Temblors: The San Fernando, Whittier Narrows, Loma Prieta, and Northridge Quakes Faults, Folklore, and Fact California Adrift -Plate Tectonics -A Bermuda Triangle for California and Rerouting of the San Andreas? 3. Landorm Provinces and Their People The Peninsular Ranges -The Interior Highlands -The Los Angeles Basin -The Islands The Transverse Ranges -Onshore -Offshore The Coast Ranges -The Northern Faults -Valley Settlement -Landlocked Counties The Klamath Mountains -Erosion and Deposition -Getting Away from It All The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
California Adrift -Plate Tectonics -A Bermuda Triangle for California and Rerouting of the San Andreas? 3. Landorm Provinces and Their People The Peninsular Ranges -The Interior Highlands -The Los Angeles Basin -The Islands The Transverse Ranges -Onshore -Offshore The Coast Ranges -The Northern Faults -Valley Settlement -Landlocked Counties The Klamath Mountains -Erosion and Deposition -Getting Away from It All The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-A Bermuda Triangle for California and Rerouting of the San Andreas? 3. Landorm Provinces and Their People The Peninsular Ranges -The Interior Highlands -The Los Angeles Basin -The Islands The Transverse Ranges -Onshore -Offshore The Coast Ranges -The Northern Faults -Valley Settlement -Landlocked Counties The Klamath Mountains -Erosion and Deposition -Getting Away from It All The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
The Peninsular Ranges -The Interior Highlands -The Los Angeles Basin -The Islands The Transverse Ranges -Onshore -Offshore The Coast Ranges -The Northern Faults -Valley Settlement -Landlocked Counties The Klamath Mountains -Erosion and Deposition -Getting Away from It All The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-The Los Angeles Basin -The Islands The Transverse Ranges -Onshore -Offshore The Coast Ranges -The Northern Faults -Valley Settlement -Landlocked Counties The Klamath Mountains -Erosion and Deposition -Getting Away from It All The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
The Transverse Ranges -Onshore -Offshore The Coast Ranges -The Northern Faults -Valley Settlement -Landlocked Counties The Klamath Mountains -Erosion and Deposition -Getting Away from It All The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Offshore The Coast Ranges -The Northern Faults -Valley Settlement -Landlocked Counties The Klamath Mountains -Erosion and Deposition -Getting Away from It All The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-The Northern Faults -Valley Settlement -Landlocked Counties The Klamath Mountains -Erosion and Deposition -Getting Away from It All The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Landlocked Counties The Klamath Mountains -Erosion and Deposition -Getting Away from It All The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Erosion and Deposition -Getting Away from It All The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
The Southern Cascades and Modoc Plateau -Lava Almost Everywhere -People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-People Almost Nowhere The Great Basin and Southeastern Deserts -A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-A Focus on Death Valley -Reservation and Rancheria Roulette -A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-A Manmade Sea -Thinly Populated Deserts -Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Basin Settlement and Transient Tourism The Sierra Nevada -Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Ancestral Formations -Granitic Intrusion -Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Block Faulting -Pleistocene Glaciation -Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Recreation and Retirement The Great Central Valley -Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Fold and Fill -California’s Cornucopia 4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
4. From Droughts to Downpours The Lure of Mild Climate -The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-The Legacy of Horace Greeley -Midwestern Graffiti -The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-The Grapes of Wrath -The Resort Mentality: A Place in the Sun Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Climates, Microclimates, and Controls -Altitude and Air Masses -Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Latitude and West Coasts -Oceanic Influences -Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Air Pressure and Winds Weather Modification -Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Unintentional: Smog -Intentional: Rainmaking 5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
5. Water: The Controversial Resource Water Resources: An Uneven Hydrography Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Water Use and Droughts Impacts of Stream Diversion on Mono Basin The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
The Western (Californian) Revolution in Water Law -Common Law Riparian Rights -The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation (the Colorado Doctrine) -The California Doctrine: A Marriage of Convenience The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
The City’s Search for Water: Los Angeles and the Owens Valley War -Mulholland’s Dream -The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-The Owens Valley War Businessmen Versus Naturalists: The San Francisco Water Controversy More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
More Water for Southern California from Somewhere Else The CVP: A Boon to Agriculture Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Water Conservation and Reuse The Pacific and the Columbia: Prolific but Unlikely Water Supply Alternatives 6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
6. Energy: The Assumed Resource Lifestyle Change: Can California Maintain Its Mystique? -Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Is the Mobile Culture Affordable? -Is the Poolside Goddess a Thing of the Past? -Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Can Californians Become Energy Spartans? Energy and Electricity: Consumption and Supply Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Hydropower Oil and Natural Gas Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Coal Geothermal Power Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Nuclear Power Solar Energy Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Wind Power Deregulation, Conservation, and the Environment 7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
7. From Redwoods to Sagebrush Principal Biomes -Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Coniferous Forests -Woodlands -Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Grasslands and Marshlands: The Central Valley as an Aboriginal Environment -Desert Shrublands -Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Chaparral and Coastal Shrublands -The Littoral The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
The Success of Exotics 8. The Historical Geography of California The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
The Original Californians European Exploration -Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Spanish Dominance -Mission Settlement Patterns The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
The Mexican Period -The End of the Mission -The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-The Romance of the Rancho Foreign Incursions and Early Statehood -Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Mountain Men, Sailors, Pioneers, and Heroes -The Gold Rush -The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-The Decline of the California Indian Population -The Rise of the Beef Industry Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Transportation and California’s Evolution Dry Farming and Irrigation Colonies The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
The “Black Gold” Rush: The Rise of the Petroleum Industry The Ascent of the Western Stars: The Making of the Movie Capital World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
World War II: Enter Defense Plants, Exit Japanese Americans Postwar California: American Suburbia Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Patterns for the Present and Future 9. Contemporary Folkways, Cultural Landscapes Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Cultural Geographic Oddities -Logging Paul Bunyan-Style: Redwood Country, Northern Forests, and Plains -Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Argonauts and Ghost Towns: Gold Country -A State Without Wine Is Like a Day Without Sunshine: Wine Country -Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Sophistication: The San Francisco Bay Area -Nashville West: Bakersfield, the Central Valley, and the Farm Belt -Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Neon Glitter: Southern California and Los Angeles -Beachboys, Boating, and the Body Beautiful: Southern Coastal Playgrounds -Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Resort Mecca and Commercial Hub, The San Diego Region Mad Dogs and Californians -Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Creating Dreams: Disney, Knott, and Others -Eating Your Way to Nirvana—By Railroad, Bistro, Pub, and Drive-in Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Recreation or Else -Spectator Spectacles: There’s More Than One Coliseum -Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Active Play: Everybody Is a Star 10. The Farm: Agricultural California Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Agricultural Records, Resources, and Commodities Livestock Products and Feed Crops -Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Cotton: King of the San Joaquin -Rotation Crops: Replenishing the Soil -Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Rice: Automation in the Sacramento Vegetables, Citrus, and Avocados -Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Ventura County: California’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Microcosm -Tomato Technology: People Versus Machines Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Deciduous Tree Crops Viticulture and Winemaking -Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Windmaking -The Mission Grape -The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-The Green Hungarian -Vinifera’s Enemies -Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Wines, Varieties, and Climates -A New Wine Geography for California? Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Oddities in Commodities -“Where’s the Pot?” -Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Another Kind of Grass -Christmas Tree Farming -Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Energy Crops: A Sweet Solution 11. The City: Metropolitan California Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Patterns of Metropolitan Growth -Metropolitan Statistical Areas -Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Shrinking Central Cities -San Francisco’s Depopulation: 1960–1980 -Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Where Did they Go?—A Bay Area Rebound -Suburbanization -Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Los Angeles: Suburbs in Search of a City -Getting Los Angeles Back on Track -Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Los Angeles and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Ethnicities Urban California at Work and Play -Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Retail and Wholesale Trade -Manufacturing -Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Tourism -San Diego as the Tourist Mecca of the Twenty-First Century The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
The Impact of Urban Sprawl on AGriculture -Land Economics and Land Tax -Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Urban Shadows -Where Will New Suburbanites Live? Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
Conserving Agriculture in Suburbia -Agriculture Cities -Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Conserving Easements -Agricultural Zoning -Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Preferential Assessment and the CLCA 12. California on the Threshold The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
The Prospects The People -Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-Growth and Population -Immigration, Migration, and Ethnicity -The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-The Social Fabric The Pacific Rim—The Pacific Century The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
The Natural Environment -Federal Regulations -State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
-State Regulations The Water Problem The Problem of Movement The Future
The Problem of Movement The Future
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