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Languages : en
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A report to the City Planning Commission on a transportation plan for San Francisco, November, 1948
Author: A Report to the City Planning Commission on a Transportation Plan for San Francisco
Author: De Leuw, Cather & CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Easement for Construction of Toll Crossing of San Francisco Bay
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed ServicesPublisher:
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Category : Bridge approaches
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Easement for Construction of Toll Crossing of San Francisco Bay. Hearings ... on S. 1390 ... July 7, 8, 9, 11, and 12, 1949
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Armed ServicesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Redundancy in Public Transit: The political economy of transit in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1963
Author: Redundancy in Public Transit
Author: Seymour AdlerPublisher:
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Master Plan of the City and County of San Francisco
Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Department of City PlanningPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Hearings
Author: United States. Congress SenatePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1688
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Changing Lanes
Author: Joseph F.C. DimentoPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262526778
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. Urban freeways often cut through the heart of a city, destroying neighborhoods, displacing residents, and reconfiguring street maps. These massive infrastructure projects, costing billions of dollars in transportation funds, have been shaped for the last half century by the ideas of highway engineers, urban planners, landscape architects, and architects—with highway engineers playing the leading role. In Changing Lanes, Joseph DiMento and Cliff Ellis describe the evolution of the urban freeway in the United States, from its rural parkway precursors through the construction of the interstate highway system to emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. DiMento and Ellis describe controversies that arose over urban freeway construction, focusing on three cases: Syracuse, which early on embraced freeways through its center; Los Angeles, which rejected some routes and then built I-105, the most expensive urban road of its time; and Memphis, which blocked the construction of I-40 through its core. Finally, they consider the emerging urban highway removal movement and other innovative efforts by cities to re-envision urban transportation.
Making the Mission
Author: Ocean HowellPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022629028X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city’s iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots. Ever since, the Mission has become known as a city within a city, and a place where residents have, over the last century, organized and reorganized themselves to make the neighborhood in their own image. In Making the Mission, Ocean Howell tells the story of how residents of the Mission District organized to claim the right to plan their own neighborhood and how they mobilized a politics of place and ethnicity to create a strong, often racialized identity—a pattern that would repeat itself again and again throughout the twentieth century. Surveying the perspectives of formal and informal groups, city officials and district residents, local and federal agencies, Howell articulates how these actors worked with and against one another to establish the very ideas of the public and the public interest, as well as to negotiate and renegotiate what the neighborhood wanted. In the process, he shows that national narratives about how cities grow and change are fundamentally insufficient; everything is always shaped by local actors and concerns.