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Saving San Antonio
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Author : Lewis F. Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-22
Saving San Antonio written by Lewis F. Fisher and has been published by Trinity University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-22 with History categories.
Few American cities enjoy the likes of San Antonio's visual links with its dramatic past. The Alamo and four other Spanish missions, recently marked as a UNESCO World Heritage site, are the most obvious but there are a host of landmarks and folkways that have survived over the course of nearly three centuries that still lend San Antonio an "odd and antiquated foreignness." Adding to the charm of the nation's seventh largest city is the San Antonio River, saved to become a winding linear park through the heart of downtown and beyond and a world model for sensitive urban development. San Antonio's heritage has not been preserved by accident. The wrecking balls and headlong development that accompanied progress in nineteenth-century San Antonio roused an indigenous historic preservation movement—the first west of the Mississippi River to become effective. Its thrust has increased since the mid-1920s with the pioneering work of the San Antonio Conservation Society. In Saving San Antonio, Texas historian Lewis Fisher peels back the myths surrounding more than a century of preservation triumphs and failures to reveal a lively mosaic that portrays the saving of San Antonio's cultural and architectural soul. The process, entertaining in the telling, has reverberated throughout the United States and provided significant lessons for the built environments and economies of cities everywhere.
Brackenridge
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Author : Lewis F. Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-18
Brackenridge written by Lewis F. Fisher and has been published by Trinity University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-18 with History categories.
Brackenridge Park began its life as a heavily wooded, bucolic driving park at the turn of the twentieth century. Over the next 120 years it evolved into the sprawling, multifaceted jewel San Antonians enjoy today, home to the San Antonio Zoo, the state’s first public golf course, the Japanese Tea Garden, the Sunken Garden Theater, and the Witte Museum. The land that Brackenridge Park occupies, near the San Antonio River headwaters, has been reinvented many times over. People have gathered there since prehistoric times. Following the city’s founding in 1718, the land was used to channel river water into town via a system of acequias; its limestone cliffs were quarried for building materials; and it was the site of a Civil War tannery, headquarters for two military camps, a plant nursery, and a racetrack. The park continues to be a site of national acclaim even while major sections have fallen into disrepair. The more than 400 acres that constitute San Antonio’s flagship urban park are made up of half a dozen parcels stitched together over time to create an uncommon varied landscape. Uniquely San Antonian, Brackenridge is full of romantic wooded walks and whimsical public spaces drawing tourists, locals, wildlife, and waterfowl. Extensively researched and illustrated with some two hundred archival photographs and vintage postcards, Brackenridge: San Antonio’s Acclaimed Urban Park is the first comprehensive look at the fascinating story of this unique park and how its diverse layers evolved to create one of the city’s foremost gathering places.
Greetings From San Antonio
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Author : Lewis F. Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-01
Greetings From San Antonio written by Lewis F. Fisher and has been published by Trinity University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-01 with History categories.
Greetings from San Antonio: Historic Postcards of the Alamo City is a collection of more than six hundred color and black-and-white photo postcards, many of them quite rare, that yield a compelling visual narrative of the city in the early twentieth century, when postcards were at their height of popularity. Presented unaltered and accompanied by concise descriptive text, the postcards provide a distinctive visual portrait of a captivating and unique city during the early years of its transformation into the multicultural mecca it is today.
American Venice
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Author : Lewis F. Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Release Date : 2015-02-23
American Venice written by Lewis F. Fisher and has been published by Trinity University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-23 with History categories.
In American Venice: The Epic Story of San Antonio’s River, Lewis F. Fisher uncovers the evolution of San Antonio’s beloved River Walk. He shares how San Antonians refused to give up on the vital water source that provided for them from before the city’s beginnings. In 1941 neglect, civic uprisings, and bursts of creativity culminated in the completion of a Works Projects Administration project designed by Robert H. H. Hugman. The resulting River Walk languished for years but enjoyed renewed interest during the 1968 World’s Fair, held in San Antonio, and has since become the center of the city’s cultural and historical narrative. “The real story [of the River Walk] is a bit less Hollywood but far more interesting . . . With a growing number of cities facing issues of water supply, urban runoff, flooding, and ways of rebuilding better after a disaster, the San Antonio River Walk remains a great example of getting it right,” writes Irby Hightower, co-chair of the San Antonio River Oversight Committee. In this updated and expanded edition of River Walk: The Epic Story of San Antonio’s River, Fisher offers more fascinating stories about the River Walk’s evolution, bringing to light new facts and sharing historical images that he has since discovered. The update includes information about the Museum and Mission Reaches, two expansions of the River Walk that are vital to San Antonio’s continued growth as the seventh largest city in the country. Fisher starts his story with the first written records of the river, in the 1690s, and continues through the 1800s and the flood of 1921, to debates over transforming the river and its eventual role as the crown jewel of Texas, and finally to its recent expansion. More than a community attraction, the River Walk’s banks are also a giant botanical garden full of plants and trees. Indeed, the American Society for Horticulture has named the River Walk a Horticultural Landmark. As Fisher says, the River Walk “remains a work in progress, one forever precarious and unfinished yet standing before the world as a triumph of enterprise and human imagination.”
On The Border
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Author : Char Miller
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2001-11-29
On The Border written by Char Miller and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-29 with History categories.
This award winning book is an environmental history of the role of water and water management in the region surrounding San Antonio and and the San Antonio River Valley.
Savings And Loan News
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Savings And Loan News written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Savings and loan associations categories.
San Antonio S Spanish Missions
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Author : Lewis F. Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Maverick Books
Release Date : 2010
San Antonio S Spanish Missions written by Lewis F. Fisher and has been published by Maverick Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Architecture categories.
More than 100 photographs of San Antonio's UNESCO World Heritage Site
River Walk
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Author : Lewis F. Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Maverick Books
Release Date : 2007
River Walk written by Lewis F. Fisher and has been published by Maverick Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Paseo del Rio (San Antonio, Tex.) categories.
Illustrated photographs and narratives describe the history, restoration, and continued development of San Antonio's River Walk.
The Spanish Missions Of San Antonio
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Author : Lewis F. Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Maverick Books
Release Date : 2010
The Spanish Missions Of San Antonio written by Lewis F. Fisher and has been published by Maverick Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Architecture categories.
This concise and lavishly illustrated account balances the significant history of the San Antonio's missions' founding and their original function with the stories of their subsequent decay and eventual restoration. New drawings depict all five mission compounds as they first appeared. Built in the eighteenth century by Franciscan friars and Native American converts, San Antonio's five missions form the largest such cluster in the United States. One is preserved as the Alamo, the others make up San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.
Scribner S Monthly An Illustrated Magazine For The People
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
Scribner S Monthly An Illustrated Magazine For The People written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with categories.