A negotiated landscape : the transformation of San Francisco's waterfront since 1950 / Jasper Rubin.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rubin, M. Jasper
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. : Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Waterfronts > California > San Francisco > History.
Harbors > California > San Francisco > History.
Landscapes > California > San Francisco > History.
Social change > California > San Francisco > History.
City planning > California > San Francisco > History.
Architecture > California > San Francisco > History.
San Francisco (Calif.) > History.
San Francisco (Calif.) > Social conditions.
San Francisco (Calif.) > Politics and government.
Physical Description:xv, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.