Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Planning, Current Literature
Author: Designing San Francisco
Author: Alison IsenbergPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691264546
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A major urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco Designing San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg shifts the focus from architects and city planners—those most often hailed in histories of urban development and design—to the unsung artists, activists, and others who played pivotal roles in rebuilding San Francisco between the 1940s and the 1970s. Previous accounts of midcentury urban renewal have focused on the opposing terms set down by Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs—put simply, development versus preservation—and have followed New York City models. Now Isenberg turns our attention west to colorful, pioneering, and contentious San Francisco, where unexpectedly fierce battles were waged over iconic private and public projects like Ghirardelli Square, Golden Gateway, and the Transamerica Pyramid. When large-scale redevelopment came to low-rise San Francisco in the 1950s, the resulting rivalries and conflicts sparked the proliferation of numerous allied arts fields and their professionals, including architectural model makers, real estate publicists, graphic designers, photographers, property managers, builders, sculptors, public-interest lawyers, alternative press writers, and preservationists. Isenberg explores how these centrally engaged arts professionals brought new ideas to city, regional, and national planning and shaped novel projects across urban, suburban, and rural borders. San Francisco’s rebuilding galvanized far-reaching critiques of the inequitable competition for scarce urban land, and propelled debates over responsible public land stewardship. Isenberg challenges many truisms of this renewal era—especially the presumed male domination of postwar urban design, showing how women collaborated in city building long before feminism’s impact in the 1970s. An evocative portrait of one of the world’s great cities, Designing San Francisco provides a new paradigm for understanding past and present struggles to define the urban future.
Pacific Coast Architect
Author: Transactions of the Commonwealth Club of California
Author: Commonwealth Club of CaliforniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Urban Transportation Research and Planning, Current Literature
Author: The American City
Author: Arthur Hastings GrantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... National Conference on City Planning
Author: Select List of References on City Planning, Garden Cities, Etc
Author: Library of Congress. Division of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Cities of the Mississippi
Author: John William RepsPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826209394
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Spectacular modern aerial photographs of twenty-three of the towns dramatically illustrate changes to the urban scene and demonstrate the lasting influence of the initial city patterns on subsequent growth.
Meeting the Insurance Crisis of Our Cities
Author: President's National Advisory Panel on Insurance in Riot-Affected Areas (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description