Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (923 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691172544 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Foulkes, author of To the City: Urban Photographs of the New Deal. Her fascinating book is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design."--Dolores Hayden, Yale University, author of The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History"Designing San Francisco makes a major contribution to the history and practice of urban planning and architecture. Probing deeply into how urban plans are worked out on the ground by a broad cast of city builders, Isenberg offers the first serious and persuasive alternative to the longstanding binary opposition between the partisans of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses."--Mary P. Ryan, author of Mys
Now Isenberg turns our attention west to colorful, pioneering, and contentious San Francisco, where unexpectedly fierce battles were waged over iconic private and public projects like Ghirardelli Square, Golden Gateway, and the Transamerica Pyramid.When large-scale redevelopment came to low-rise San Francisco in the 1950s, the resulting rivalries and conflicts sparked the proliferation of numerous allied arts fields and their professionals, including architectural model makers, real estate publicists, graphic designers, photographers, property managers, builders, sculptors, public-interest lawyers, alternative press writers, and preservationists. Isenberg explores how these centrally engaged arts professionals brought new ideas to city, regional, and national planning and shaped novel projects across urban, suburban, and rural borders. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. San Francisco’s rebuilding galvanized far-reaching critiques of the inequitable competition for scarce urban land, and propelled debates over responsible public land stewardship. Isenberg challenges many truisms of this renewal eraespecially the presumed male domination of postwar urban design, showing how women colla
Alison Isenberg is professor of history at Princeton University, where she codirects the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities. . She is the author of Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It