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Excerpt from A Plan for Civic Improvement for the City of Oakland, California In approach to Oakland from the bay, one sees a city stretching far along the waterfront and back over the flat plain, until the houses begin to climb the foothills. These, lying in rolling terraces beyond, promise views of rare majesty and beauty. The air at every season is soft and mild, the skies are blue, even often when fog hides the bay's other shore and the homes are separate houses, embowered in roses and wisteria and rising from gardens of lilies. What a place tilla appears, naturally and sociologically, for parks! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.