Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Industrial School Department. Board of ManagersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Industrial School Department of the City and County of San Francisco
Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Industrial School Department. Board of ManagersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A City for Children
Author: Marta GutmanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022615615X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed the urban fabric of these newly diverse, plural metropolises. In A City for Children, Marta Gutman focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place for children. She introduces us to the women who were determined to mitigate the burdens placed on working-class families by an indifferent industrial capitalist economy. Often without the financial means to build from scratch, women did not tend to conceive of urban land as a blank slate to be wiped clean for development. Instead, Gutman shows how, over and over, women turned private houses in Oakland into orphanages, kindergartens, settlement houses, and day care centers, and in the process built the charitable landscape—a network of places that was critical for the betterment of children, families, and public life. The industrial landscape of Oakland, riddled with the effects of social inequalities and racial prejudices, is not a neutral backdrop in Gutman’s story but an active player. Spanning one hundred years of history, A City for Children provides a compelling model for building urban institutions and demonstrates that children, women, charity, and incremental construction, renovations, alterations, additions, and repurposed structures are central to the understanding of modern cities.
Charter of the City and County of San Francisco ....
Author: San Francisco (Calif.).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Annual Report of the Department of the Interior
Author: United States. Department of the InteriorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: United States. Dept. of the InteriorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States
Author: Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Catalog of Printed Books
Author: Bancroft LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description