Designing San Francisco - Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City By the Bay

About the author

Alison Isenberg is professor of history at Princeton University and founding director of 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.

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 plann

Additional text

"In Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay, the historian Alison Isenberg points to a shift around this time in the way San Francisco practiced its urban renewal. Instead of being designed from on high, in the style of Robert Moses in New York, the postwar city grew largely through collaborative planning. This didn’t mean that messy neighborhoods were left alone to find their internal order (as in Jane Jacobs’s preservationist ideal) but that artists, property managers, activists, and others all got involved."---Nathan Heller, The New Yorker

Product details

• Authors: Alison Isenberg, Isenberg Alison
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.2024
• EAN: 9780691264547
• ISBN: 978-0-691-26454-7
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; California, The arts: general issues, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political science & theory, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Local History, United States of America, USA, History of Architecture, History of the Americas, Urban and municipal planning and policy, C 1945 To C 1960, US West, City and town planning: architectural aspects