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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Horiuchi, Lynne (Editor ), Sankalia, Tanu (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]
Temas:
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Treasure Island (San Francisco, Calif.) > History.
Treasure, Île (San Francisco, Calif.) > Histoire.
California > San Francisco > Treasure Island.
History.
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

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