Fremont, California
"From the ashes of his camps will rise great cities"
(Jessie Fremont, wife of explorer John C. Fremont)
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Physical Character and Geography of Fremont, California Despite strong central planning efforts, the City of Fremont has a patchwork quilt appearance and feeling due to differences in the characters of its constituent towns (Niles, Irvington, Centerville, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs) each of which already possessed a town center at the time of incorporation. Although a municipal center (called the Central district and located in the middle of Fremont) physically joins the former towns like the hub it intended to be, it creates a centrifugal rather than centripetal effect. The city's visual lack of cohesion results in a lack of identity causing grief to the . . . More |
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Geography 181 -- Urban Field Studies Fall 2000 Jenna Loyd Anne Toxey Rob Farrell Evelyn Yee Peter Cohen |
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