City of Wood
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-3466-9 (ISBN)
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2025 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers
2025 Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture Forum
How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West.
California’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the “instant city” of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural resources of the American West. City of Wood examines how capitalists and workers logged the state’s vast redwood forests to create the financial capital and construction materials needed to build the regional metropolis of San Francisco. Architectural historian James Michael Buckley investigates the remote forest and its urban core as two poles of a regional “city.” This city consisted of a far-reaching network of spaces, produced as company owners and workers arrayed men and machines to extract resources and create human commodities from the region’s rich natural environment.
Combining labor, urban, industrial, and social history, City of Wood employs a variety of sources—including contemporary newspaper articles, novels, and photographs—to explore the architectural landscape of lumber, from backwoods logging camps and company towns in the woods to busy lumber docks and the homes of workers and owners in San Francisco. By imagining the redwood lumber industry as a single community spread across multiple sites—a “City of Wood”—Buckley demonstrates how capitalist resource extraction links different places along the production value chain. The result is a paradigm shift in architectural history that focuses not just on the evolution of individual building design across time, but also on economic connections that link the center and periphery across space.
James Michael Buckley is an urban planner and historian.
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Geography of the City of Wood
Part I: The Landscape of Lumber
1. City and Country: The Redwood Value Chain
Part II: Forest
2. “The Factory without a Roof”: Mills and Camps in the Redwood Forest
3. Mill and Mansion: The Landscape of Capital and Labor in Eureka
Part III: Metropolis
4. The Redwood Value Chain in the City of Wood’s Urban Core
5. The Space of Capital in San Francisco
6. Lumber Workers and the Labor Landscape of San Francisco
Part IV: Region
7. A Revolution in Distribution and Production
8. Constructing a Modern Industrial Community: Company Towns in the Redwoods
9. Conclusion: The Architecture of the City of Wood
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 63 b&w photos, 19 maps, 6 tables |
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Technik ► Architektur |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-3466-1 / 1477334661 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-3466-9 / 9781477334669 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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