A conversation with urban planner and architectural historian James Michael Buckley about their book

City of Wood:

San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry

(University of Texas Press, 2024)

James Michael Buckley is an urban planner, recently retired from the University of Oregon where he was an associate professor and venerable chair in historic preservation, and the director of the historic preservation program in the School of Architecture and Environment. Previously, he held teaching positions at MIT, San Francisco State University, and the University of California Berkley, where he earned an MA in city and regional planning and a PhD in architecture. He also holds a BA in Art History and American Studies from Yale University.

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