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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
Oakland's Formula for the Future
Author: Oakland's Formula for the Future
Author: The San Francisco Bay Area
Author: Mel ScottPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520055124
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The San Francisco Bay Area, Second Edition
Author: Mel ScottPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520323939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 981
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.
American Babylon
Author: Robert O. SelfPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691124868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in postwar Oakland As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland and its nearby suburbs, tracing both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics. Robert Self shows that racial inequities in both New Deal and Great Society liberalism precipitated local struggles over land, jobs, taxes, and race within postwar metropolitan development. Black power and the tax revolt evolved together, in tension. American Babylon demonstrates that the history of civil rights and black liberation politics in California did not follow a southern model, but represented a long-term struggle for economic rights that began during the World War II years and continued through the rise of the Black Panthers in the late 1960s. This struggle yielded a wide-ranging and profound critique of postwar metropolitan development and its foundation of class and racial segregation. Self traces the roots of the 1978 tax revolt to the 1940s, when home owners, real estate brokers, and the federal government used racial segregation and industrial property taxes to forge a middle-class lifestyle centered on property ownership. Using the East Bay as a starting point, Robert Self gives us a richly detailed, engaging narrative that uniquely integrates the most important racial liberation struggles and class politics of postwar America.
The Second Gold Rush
Author: Marilynn S. JohnsonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520207017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
"At last, a close-in account of California during its moment of rebirth, World War II. . . . A book that helps us to understand California's past and also its present."—James N. Gregory, author of American Exodus
No There There
Author: Chris RhombergPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520251660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
"This sophisticated account of a remarkable city's coalitions and conflicts over half a century is an outstanding contribution to urban history and political analysis. Clearly written and amply supplied with good stories, the book will interest students of urban history, social movements, and American political change."—Charles Tilly, author of Durable Inequality "An altogether exemplary book. Rhomberg uses a combination of traditional class analysis, an institutional perspective on urban politics, and social movement theory to fashion a rich and persuasive account of the history of urban political conflict in Oakland between 1920-1975. In combining these strands of theory and research, he has also given us a model for the kind of dynamic, historically grounded political sociology that has been sadly missing in recent years."—Doug McAdam, author of Freedom Summer "Race, class, and local politics are key components of America's social fabric. On the basis of his outstanding scholarly research, Rhomberg examines the complex web of their interaction by focusing on one of the most conflicted urban scenes: Oakland, California; and taking a historical perspective on the evolving pattern of power struggles. This book will become required reading for students of urban politics."—Manuel Castells, author of The Rise of the Network Society “No There There combines a sophisticated interpretation of political and sociological urban theory with rigorous historical research… An important and stimulating book.” –Joseph A. Rodriguez, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Western Historical Quarterly
The Making of a Multicentered Metropolis
Author: Joseph Anthony RodriguezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The San Francisco Bay Area
Author: Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Planning the Twentieth-century American City
Author: Mary Corbin SiesPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801851643
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
Book Description
Arguing that planning in practice is far more complicated than historians usually depict, the authors examine closely the everyday social, political, economic, ideological, bureaucratic, and environmental contexts in which planning has occurred. In so doing, they redefine the nature of planning practice, expanding the range of actors and actions that we understand to have shaped urban development.