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Urban reinventions : San Francisco's Treasure Island /
When it was built in 1937, Treasure Island was considered to be one of the largest man-made islands in the world. Located in the middle of San Francisco Bay, the 400-acre island was constructed out of dredged bay mud in a remarkable feat of Depression-era civil engineering by the US Army Corps of En...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Urban Reinventions.
- LYNNE HORIUCHI AND TANU SANKALIA
- 2. The Island at the Center of the Bay
- RICHARD A. WALKER
- Part I
- Treasure Island, an Airport, and the Golden Gate International Exposition
- 3. How to Celebrate a Bridge
- ANDREW M. SHANKEN
- 4. Visions of Progress and Peace: Foreign Architectural Representations at the Century of Progress and Golden Gate International Expositions
- LISA D. SCHRENK
- 5. A Local Global Utopia: The Japan Pavilion at the Golden Gate International Exposition
- LYNNE HORIUCHIPart II
- Naval Station Treasure Island and Military Occupation
- 6. Trial by the Bay: Treasure Island and Segregation in the Navyâ#x80;#x99;s Lake
- JAVIER ARBONA
- 7. Pandemonium on the Bay: Naval Station Treasure Island and the Toxic Legacies of Atomic Defense
- LINDSEY DILLON
- 8. Visions for Reuse: The Legacy of the Bay Areaâ#x80;#x99;s Military Installations
- MARK L. GILLEM
- Part III
- The Treasure Islandâ#x80;#x93;Yerba Buena Island Development Project
- 9. Visions of an Island Ecotopia
- TANU SANKALIA10. Magic City 2.0: Articulations of Soil, Law, and Capital on Treasure Island
- JOHN STEHLIN
- 11. Groundwork: (De)Touring Treasure Islandâ#x80;#x99;s Toxic History
- C. GREIG CRYSLER
- Contributors