Metropolitan San Diego: How Geography and Lifestyle Shape a New Urban Environment.(Book review)
Journal of Cultural Geography, September, 2006 by Smith, Betty E.
Metropolitan San Diego: How Geography and Lifestyle Shape a New Urban Environment. By Larry R. Ford. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Foreword, notes, and index, x 240 pp. $19.95 paper. ISBN: 0-8122-1898-1.
Larry Ford delightfully engages the reader in an informed and enlightening description of the historical and contemporary San Diego urban structure. A long-time resident and recognized geography professor, Ford provides an insightful journey through California's southernmost city. Firmly grounded in cultural-historical geography and human-land interaction, Metropolitan San Diego presents the realities and myths of cognitive place creation. The author notes that the widely varied images and landscapes associated with San Diego's differing...
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