City for Sale - The Transformation of San Francisco

Informationen zum Autor Chester Hartman is President and Executive Director of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council in Washington! D.C. He is author of Between Eminence and Notoriety: Four Decades of Radical Urban Planning (2001)! and editor of Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America (2001) and Housing Issues of the 1990s (1989). Klappentext "The importance of Chester Hartman's book reaches far beyond the case of San Francisco. It is a major work on the politics and economics of urban development! a work that uniquely foresees alternative ways to improve our cities. It will become a landmark of urban research."-Manuel Castells! University of California "The further one reads into Chester Hartman's story of San Francisco redevelopment! the more bizarre and engrossing the story becomes. Centering his account on the downtown Yerba Buena Center project! Hartman wonderfully illuminates the conflicts of interest! ambitions! misrepresentations! extravagant promises! brutality! waste! incompetence! and sheer silliness that characterized the ill-fated American experiment called Urban Renewal and puts it into a social and economic context."-Jane Jacobs! author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Zusammenfassung San Francisco is perhaps the most exhilarating of all American cities - its beauty, cultural and political avant-gardism, and history are legendary. This study of San Francisco's economic and political development since the mid-1950s gives an account of how the city has been transformed by the expansion - outward and upward - of its downtown. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. The Larger Forces 2. Superagency and the Redevelopment Booster Club 3. The Assault on South of Market 4. The Neighborhood Fights Back 5. Into the Courts 6. The Redevelopment Agency Flounders 7. Resolving the Convention Center Deadlock 8. South of Market Conquered 9. Moscone Center Doings 10. Yerba Buena Gardens! TODCO's Housing! and the South of Market Neighborhood 11. City Hall 12. High-Rises and the Anti-High-Rise Movement 13. The Housing Crisis and the Housing Movement 14. The Lessons of San Francisco Notes Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Chester Hartman, Hartman Chester
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2002
• EAN: 9780520086050
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08605-0
• No. of pages: 501
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; California, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Urban & municipal planning, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Regional Government Policies, Regional, state and other local government policies