Author: Oakland (Calif.). City Planning CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The Oakland Civic Center and Lake Merritt Improvement
Author: Oakland (Calif.). City Planning CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
A Plan for Civic Improvement for the City of Oakland, California
Author: Charles Mulford RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
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
Hella Town
Author: Mitchell SchwarzerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520391535
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oakland’s built environment. Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger and more glamorous twin, Oakland has a fascinating history of its own. From serving as a major transportation hub to forging a dynamic manufacturing sector, by the mid-twentieth century Oakland had become the urban center of the East Bay. Hella Town focuses on how political deals, economic schemes, and technological innovations fueled this emergence but also seeded the city’s postwar struggles. Toward the turn of the millennium, as immigration from Latin America and East Asia increased, Oakland became one of the most diverse cities in the country. The city still grapples with the consequences of uneven class- and race-based development-amid-disruption. How do past decisions about where to locate highways or public transit, urban renewal districts or civic venues, parks or shopping centers, influence how Oaklanders live today? A history of Oakland’s buildings and landscapes, its booms and its busts, provides insight into its current conditions: an influx of new residents and businesses, skyrocketing housing costs, and a lingering chasm between the haves and have-nots.
The Civic Center
Author: Thornton Kirkland WarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Municipal
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Planning, Current Literature
Author: 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.
Husted's Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley City Directory
Author: Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1490
Book Description