The San Francisco Civic Center : A History of the Design, Controversies, and Realization of a City Beautiful Masterpiece /
"The first and only book available which describes the origins of American civic centers and then tells the history of the greatest of the them, the San Francisco Civic Center"--Provided by publisher.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Las Vegas :
University of Nevada Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The American civic center : origin and history
- Victorian city hall and early city planning in San Francisco
- California and the Chicago Exposition : the City Beautiful comes to San Francisco
- The 1906 earthquake's aftermath : catastrophe, disarray, and indecision
- The Panama-Pacific International Exposition and the creation of San Francisco's civic center
- Breaking ground on the civic center
- Between the wars : mayor Rolph forges ahead
- Between the wars : veterans and the temple of music
- Postwar and modernism
- Late-century expansion : Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall and a new library
- Recent decades and the present day : building towards Civic Center's centennial.