The vintage images are arranged to form a narrative in eight chapters: Military Plaza, Main Plaza, Alamo Plaza, Travis Park, River Walk, San Pedro Park, Brackenridge Park and Other Plazas and Parks, which include Madison Square Milam Park, Maverick Park, Romana Plaza, Woodlawn Lake Park, Riverside Park and Exposition Park. A foreword by longtime Trinity University history professor Char Miller puts the parks in a broad urban perspective.
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Framed around a grid that led citizens of this frontier town to revolve around San Fernando Cathedral for all daily activities, this circulation pattern reinforced the church's role as civic hub and created a vibrant street life. Main and Military plazas, which opened to the east and west of the cathedral, became centers of commercial trade and social exchange, and functioned as the communal heart. Other open spaces, such as Alamo Plaza and Milam Park, served similar needs. The pattern was reproduced in the next century with the creation of Maverick Park and Madison, Washington and Franklin squares. Each offered the face-to-face interactions that earlier planners deemed so necessary to a healthy civic life. As revealed in this books vintage views of crowded sidewalks and swimming holes, San Antonians took full advantage of their many opportunities to mingle in The Great Outdoors. -- from the foreword by Char Miller
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