Designing San Francisco (eBook)

Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay

Alison Isenberg (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
432 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8883-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San FranciscoDesigning San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg shifts the focus from architects and city planners-those most often hailed in histories of urban development and design-to the unsung artists, activists, and others who played pivotal roles in rebuilding San Francisco between the 1940s and the 1970s.Previous accounts of midcentury urban renewal have focused on the opposing terms set down by Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs-put simply, development versus preservation-and have followed New York City models. 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. 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 era-especially the presumed male domination of postwar urban design, showing how women collaborated in city building long before feminism's impact in the 1970s.An evocative portrait of one of the world's great cities, Designing San Francisco provides a new paradigm for understanding past and present struggles to define the urban future.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: adaptive reuse • Advertising • advisory board • Allan Jacobs • Allan Temko • amenity • Apartment • architectural design • architectural firm • Architectural Forum • Architectural model • Architectural Record • Architecture • Beniamino Bufano • Brochure • California • Career • Coit Tower • Condor Club • Construction • credential • Criticism • David Rockefeller • Demolition • Design • Designer • development plan • Douglas Haskell • Edith Heath • Embarcadero Center • Environmentalism • Environmentalist • Furniture • Ghirardelli Square • Grady Clay • graphic designer • Greenwich Village • Harvard University • Heath Ceramics • Herb Caen • historical society • historic preservation • Hyde Street Pier • Illustration • Interior design • Jane Jacobs • Journalism • landscape architect • Landscape architecture • Landscape Design • Lawrence Halprin • Manhattanization • Modern Architecture • modernism • newspaper • Planned community • Politician • preservationist • Property Management • Publication • Publicity • Publishing • Real Estate • real estate broker • Real Estate Development • Redevelopment • Robert Moses • Rockefeller Center • Ruth Asawa • San Francisco • san francisco bay area • San Francisco Chronicle • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • San Francisco State University • sculpture • Second-Wave Feminism • Shakers • Shopping mall • Skyscraper • Stanford University • State Park • suburb • Supervisor • Tax • The Death and Life of Great American Cities • The San Francisco Examiner • The Wall Street journal • Tourism • Trade magazine • Transamerica Pyramid • University of California Press • University of Pennsylvania • Urban Design • Urban History • urban planning • Urban renewal • William Wurster • World War II • Writing • zoning
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8883-2 / 1400888832
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8883-2 / 9781400888832