Designing San Francisco : art, land, and urban renewal in the City by the Bay / Alison Isenberg.

Main entry:

Isenberg, Alison, author.

Title & Author:

Designing San Francisco : art, land, and urban renewal in the City by the Bay / Alison Isenberg.

Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
©2017

Description:

436 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The illustrated pitch -- "Not bound by an instinct to preserve" -- "Culture-a-go-go" -- Married merchant-builders -- Managing property -- Movers and shakers -- "Urban renewal with paint" -- Model cities -- "The competition for urban land" -- Skyscrapers, street vacations, and the seventies.

Summary:

A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco Designing 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.

ISBN:

9780691172545 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0691172544 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

City planning California San Francisco.
Land use California San Francisco.
Utilisation du sol Californie San Francisco.
City planning.
Land use.
California San Francisco.

Added entries:

Art, land, and urban renewal in the City by the Bay

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297151
Call No.: BIB 243487
Status: Available

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