A Negotiated Landscape : The Transformation of San Francisco's Waterfront since 1950 /

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A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco's iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millennium. What was once a major shipping port is now best known for leisure and entertainment. To understand this landscape Jasper Rubin not only expl...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rubin, M. Jasper (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Port of San Francisco (Calif.)
Architecture > California > San Francisco > History.
City planning > California > San Francisco > History.
Social change > California > San Francisco > History.
Landscapes > California > San Francisco > History.
Harbors > California > San Francisco > History.
Waterfronts > California > San Francisco > History.
San Francisco (Calif.) > Social conditions.
San Francisco (Calif.) > Politics and government.
San Francisco (Calif.) > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Oceans apart : the San Francisco waterfront now and then
  • A sea change
  • In the absence of plans : grand schemes of the 1950s and 1960s
  • Don't fill me in : the rise of regulation and the decline of modernist visions
  • In local hands : new pressures of the 1970s
  • The best laid plans
  • Questionable results : the northern waterfront in the 1970s and 1980s
  • A waterfront planned : the 1990s and the new millennium
  • Whose waterfront?.

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