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Author Rubin, M. Jasper, author

Title A negotiated landscape : the transformation of San Francisco's waterfront since 1950 / Jasper Rubin
Published Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania] : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiv, 399 pages)) : illustrations, portrait
Contents Oceans apart : the San Francisco waterfront now and then -- A sea change -- In the absence of plans : grand schemes of the 1950s and 1960s -- Don't fill me in : the rise of regulation and the decline of modernist visions -- In local hands : new pressures of the 1970s -- The best laid plans -- Questionable results : the northern waterfront in the 1970s and 1980s -- A waterfront planned : the 1990s and the new millennium -- Whose waterfront?
Summary A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco's iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millennium. What was once a major shipping port is now best known for leisure and entertainment. To understand this landscape Jasper Rubin not only explores the built environment but also the major forces that have been at work in its redevelopment. While factors such as new transportation technology and economic restructuring have been essential to the process and character of the waterfront's transformation, the impact of local, grassroots efforts by planners, activists, and boosters have been equally critical. The first edition of A Negotiated Landscape won the 2012 prize for best book in planning history from the International Planning History Society. Much has changed in the five years since that edition was published. For this second edition, Rubin provides a new concluding chapter that updates the progress of planning on San Francisco's waterfront and examines debates over the newest visions for its development
Notes Based on theauthor's dissertation, University of Maryland, 2003
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Port of San Francisco (Calif.)
SUBJECT Port of San Francisco (Calif.) fast
Subject Architecture -- California -- San Francisco -- History
City planning -- California -- San Francisco -- History
Social change -- California -- San Francisco -- History
Landscapes -- California -- San Francisco -- History
Harbors -- California -- San Francisco -- History
Waterfronts -- California -- San Francisco -- History
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Architecture
City planning
Harbors
Landscapes
Politics and government
Social change
Social conditions
Waterfronts
SUBJECT San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social conditions
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Politics and government
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History
Subject California -- San Francisco
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822981442
0822981440