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Making the mission : planning and ethnicity in San Francisco /

"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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Howell, Ocean (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Colección:Historical studies of urban America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Neighborhood power in twentieth-century San Francisco. Neighborhood power in the "White Man's Territory," 1906-29 ; Make no big plans: the city beautiful meets improvement clubs ; Neighborhood capitalism: urban planning, municipal government, and the Mission Promotion Association ; The Mission and the spatial imagination: discourse, ethnicity, and architecture
  • The New Deal in the Mission: revitalizing community, eroding local power. A new population, not a new public: Latino diversity in San Francisco and the Mission District ; Economic equality, racial erasure: the spatial and cultural interventions of federal public works agencies ; "no-lining" and neighborhood erasure: Washington, D.C., and downtown San Francisco come to the Mission
  • Progress for whom? Transportation planning, urban renewal, and multiethnic coalition-building, 1945-60. The motoring public and neighborhood erasure: the culture and practice of postwar transportation planning ; Latino as worker: the changing politics of race in the city and the neighborhood
  • Return to the city within a city: multiethnic coalitions and urban renewal, 1961-73. A "salvable neighborhood": urban renewal, model cities, and the rise of a social planning regime ; Who holds final authority?: The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and the Mission Council on Redevelopment ; The return to the city within a city: The Mission Coalition Organization and the devolution of planning power
  • Conclusion.