Download or read book Oakland the Story of a City written by Beth Bagwell and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Little City that was written by Kris Schultz and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hella Town written by Mitchell Schwarzer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oakland’s built environment. Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger and more glamorous twin, Oakland has a fascinating history of its own. From serving as a major transportation hub to forging a dynamic manufacturing sector, by the mid-twentieth century Oakland had become the urban center of the East Bay. Hella Town focuses on how political deals, economic schemes, and technological innovations fueled this emergence but also seeded the city’s postwar struggles. Toward the turn of the millennium, as immigration from Latin America and East Asia increased, Oakland became one of the most diverse cities in the country. The city still grapples with the consequences of uneven class- and race-based development-amid-disruption. How do past decisions about where to locate highways or public transit, urban renewal districts or civic venues, parks or shopping centers, influence how Oaklanders live today? A history of Oakland’s buildings and landscapes, its booms and its busts, provides insight into its current conditions: an influx of new residents and businesses, skyrocketing housing costs, and a lingering chasm between the haves and have-nots.
Download or read book Blues City written by Ishmael Reed and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oakland is a blues city, brawling and husky . . . Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beauty—mountains and hills and lakes and a bay—and architecture that mirrors its history as a Spanish mission, Gold Rush outpost, and home of the West’s most devious robber barons. It’s also a city of artists and blue-collar workers, the birthplace of the Black Panthers, neighbor to Berkeley, and home to a vibrant and volatile stew of immigrants and refugees. In Blues City, Ishmael Reed, one of our most brilliant essayists, takes us on a tour of Oakland, exploring its fascinating history, its beautiful hills and waterfronts, and its odd cultural juxtapositions. He takes us into a year in the life of this amazing city, to black cowboy parades and Indian powwows, to Black Panther reunions and Gay Pride concerts, to a Japanese jazz club where a Lakota musician plays Coltrane’s “Naima.” Reed provides a fascinating tour of an un-tamed, unruly western outpost set against the backdrop of political intrigues, ethnic rivalries, and a gentrification-obsessed mayor, opening our eyes not only to a singular city, but to a newly emerging America.
Download or read book A City for Children written by Marta Gutman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed the urban fabric of these newly diverse, plural metropolises. In A City for Children, Marta Gutman focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place for children. She introduces us to the women who were determined to mitigate the burdens placed on working-class families by an indifferent industrial capitalist economy. Often without the financial means to build from scratch, women did not tend to conceive of urban land as a blank slate to be wiped clean for development. Instead, Gutman shows how, over and over, women turned private houses in Oakland into orphanages, kindergartens, settlement houses, and day care centers, and in the process built the charitable landscape—a network of places that was critical for the betterment of children, families, and public life. The industrial landscape of Oakland, riddled with the effects of social inequalities and racial prejudices, is not a neutral backdrop in Gutman’s story but an active player. Spanning one hundred years of history, A City for Children provides a compelling model for building urban institutions and demonstrates that children, women, charity, and incremental construction, renovations, alterations, additions, and repurposed structures are central to the understanding of modern cities.
Download or read book Policing a City s Central District written by Albert J. Reiss and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City Charter of the City of Oakland California written by Oakland and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide to the city charter and ordinances of Oakland, California, provides a detailed overview of the legal framework governing the city. With clear, concise explanations and helpful annotations, this book is an essential resource for anyone involved in local government or interested in the legal history of Oakland. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Oakland written by Thomas Butler and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of DT and Jabo starts in a modest neighborhood in the notorious streets of Oakland, where they find themselves caught up in a money game, war pursues leading to a game of cat and mouse with crooked cops, FBI, DEA Agents, and a formidable enemy who learns that money isn't power and that old adage keep your enemies close but your friends closer, could be the difference between life and death.
Download or read book Oakland California written by Mose Durst and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every citizen of the United States and every Chinese-American, indeed everyone who is not familiar with the atomic bomb and the Pacific and Asian War must read this book about an extremely distorted and hidden history period, before and during WWII and the dropping of the Atomic Bombs.
Download or read book Oakland a Mediterranean City written by Roger F. Urban and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My City Is Oakland written by Kamaria Lofton and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-13 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My City Is Oakland" is a fun and exciting book for children, high-lighting the wonderfully diverse and culturally-rich place we call home: Oakland, California. This book is sure to spark memories of growing up in Oakland as well as be a guide for new Oaklanders!
Download or read book America s Healthiest City written by Deane Lamont and published by . This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the early 1850s, Oakland's good weather and open spaces attracted many visitors from the nearby booming metropolis of San Francisco. They came by ferry to the semi-rural East Bay to enjoy a day or longer of healthy outdoor recreation. By the 1870s, Oakland's popularity as a place for leisure had motivated numerous entrepreneurs to establish for-profit sites for recreation and sport that served both visitors and their own city's growing population. Oakland's "natural advantages" were not lost on its business and political leadership. During the 1880s and 1890s, a time when growing attention was directed toward various aspects of personal and public health, Oakland's geography and climate were believed to make it an unusually healthy city. A physically active population and low mortality rate became major selling points in campaigns aimed at attracting new residents and businesses to the East Bay. In the decades between the Civil War and the great 1906 earthquake, Oakland was convincingly advertised as America's "healthiest" city.
Download or read book The Oakland Stories written by George B. Taylor and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book A History of the Physical Development of the City of Oakland the Formative Years 1850 1930 written by John Beaty Dykstra and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oakland Hills written by Erika Mailman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The native Huchiun people once traversed the lush greenery of the Oakland hills, glimpsing breathtaking vistas as they followed the creeks down to the bay. In 1829, their territory became part of the huge land grant awarded to Mexican soldier Luis Maria Peralta, who in turn lost control of the hills as settlers arrived to harvest the virgin redwood. Although at one time a rustic haven for poet Joaquin Miller, who set up camp where a park now bears his name, the hills proved irresistible to developers. After transit lines reached the hills, promoters held picnics at the end of the line to entice people to buy land. Meadows and windswept hills turned to orchards and, soon after, to lovely neighborhoods. With the scars of the disastrous 1991 firestorm fading, the Oakland hills retain a bucolic beauty, a majestic backdrop for the city of Oakland.
Download or read book Oakland s Early History written by Edson Francis Adams and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief story of some of the events in connection with the early history of Oakland was written at the suggestion of the Committee appointed by the City Council of Oakland to arrange for the celebration of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Oakland, May 4, 1852. In order that the reader may form a picture of the conditions in California at that time, the writer has begun the story in the year 1848.
Download or read book Report on a City Plan for the Municipalities of Oakland and Berkeley written by Werner Hegemann and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
