Built intentionally on the fall line where the Piedmont meets the Tidewater, Richmond has always been a city defined by the land. Few know this better than Potterfield, a planner with the City of Richmond Department of Community Development. Whether considering the many roles of the "romantic, wild and beautiful" James River, describing the rationale for the Capitol"s Shockoe Hill location or relating the struggle to reclaim green space from industrialization, Potterfield weaves a tale as ordered as the gridded streets of Richmond and just as rich in history. With a foreword by Sarah Shields Driggs.