No Communication with the Sea: Searching for an Urban Future in the Great Basin

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I give many thanks to my family, friends, and colleagues who supported me on this long journey. Michael Teitz, Michael Southworth, Mark Brilliant , and Vicki Elmer at UC Berkeley all read and commented on early versions of this project and offered needed encouragement. Paul Groth provided insight and a great reading list on modernity at a critical period in the book’s development. I am forever grateful that the manuscript landed in the hands of Kristen Buckles at University of Arizona Press, who saw the potential for it and shepherded me through the process. Thanks also to all the other great people at the Press who had a hand in shaping the book. Many thanks to my friends and family who read late drafts of the manuscript and offered their comments. I thank my sources for lending their names and stories to this collage, and for their insights and cooperation. I thank my colleagues at Community Design + Architecture for teaching me about urbanism big and small every working day. I am deeply grateful to those people who have mentored me as a writer and reporter, most especially Barbara Ganley, Julia Alvarez, Chris Smart, Peg McEntee, and Gordon Oliver. Thanks to Two Creek Coffee House and Coffee Noir in Salt Lake, Caffe Strada in Berkeley, Cole Coffee , Nomad Café, and of course World Ground Café in Oakland—the places where I wrote these words and revised them over and over. . . . Thanks and love to Mom, Dad, Paddy, Erin, Juliet, and Bud. No Communication with the Sea ...