Main entry:

Kahn, Judd, 1940-

Title & Author:

Imperial San Francisco : politics and planning in an American city, 1897-1906 / Judd Kahn.

Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1979.

Description:

263 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Metropolitan ups and downs, San Francisco in the nineteenth century -- Conflict and conciliation, labor, business, and politics in San Francisco, 1897-1906 -- New San Francisco, James Duval Phelan and the city beautiful -- Image of order, Burnham plan for San Francisco -- Ideal and the real, "civicism" and shady politics -- Relief and rehabilitation, the power of ideology -- Urban phoenix, broader lines and wider streets -- Defeat of planning, politics and property rights -- Conclusion, planning and politics, the search for authority.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Examines the design of the city in the decade before the Earthquake and Fire of 1906, city politics, the Burnham plan, and why the city rebuilt itself on the old order rather than adopting a new design.

ISBN:

0803227027
9780803227026

Subject:

City planning California San Francisco.
City planning
Politics and government
Stadtplanung
San Francisco (Calif.) Politics and government.
California San Francisco
San Francisco, Calif.

Form/genre:

Case studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 195093
Call No.: ID HT168.S2.K34; ID:98-B114
Status: Available