Foster City Foster City, CA (1989)
	The West's singular obsession with water and its control is seen in this view of Foster City, a dramatic, if ugly and pretentious, suburb of San Francisco, on the southern approach to The City. Built to attract northern Californians with a taste for Venice-style living (as in either Beach or Italy), Foster City is a faux place. Yet in its time it was heralded as a planning marvel, for which there can be little argument. Its environmental effects make grazing herds of cattle, clear-cut forest, mine tailings ponds, or thousands of back-packers seem benificent by comparison.
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