City of Wood

The Western History Lecture Series presents City of Wood: San Francisco and the Redwood Lumber Industry, a talk by urban planner and historian James Michael Buckley. 

In his book "City of Wood," architectural historian James Michael Buckley investigates the remote redwood forest and its urban core of San Francisco as two poles of a regional “city.” Buckley shows how the metropolis and the forest were connected within a far-reaching network of spaces that company owners and workers produced as they arrayed men and machines to extract resources and create human commodities from the region’s rich natural environment. 

James Michael Buckley is an urban planner and historian in San Francisco, CA. Jim holds a Master’s degree in urban planning and a PhD in Architecture from UC Berkeley, and he has taught planning and historic preservation at UC Berkeley, MIT, and the University of Oregon. 

Join us for an engaging lecture and discussion that sheds new light on the environmental and urban history of California.