A negotiated landscape : the transformation of San Francisco's waterfront since 1950 /

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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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Rubin, M. Jasper (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania] : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]
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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?