Saving San Antonio: The Precarious Preservation of a Heritage

by Lewis F. Fisher

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Few American cities enjoy the likes of San Antonio's visual links with its dramatic past. The Alamo and four other Spanish missions, plus a host of additional landmarks and folkways surviving over the course of nearly three centuries, still lend San Antonio an "odd and antiquated foreignness."Adding to the charm of the nation's ninth largest city is a bend in the San Antonio River, saved to become a winding linear park through the heart of downtown...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0896723720

ISBN13:9780896723726

Release Date:November 1996

Publisher:Texas Tech University Press

Length:552 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:2.0" x 7.3" x 10.3"

Related Subjects

Architecture City Planning & Urban Development Historic Preservation History Humanities Political Science Politics & Government Public Policy Social Sciences State & Local Urban Planning & Development

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