Download or read book The Oakland Civic Center and Lake Merritt Improvement written by Oakland (Calif.). City Planning Commission and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed Amendment of the Civic Center and Lake Merritt Improvement Section of the Oakland Master Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Plan for Civic Improvement for the City of Oakland California written by Charles Mulford Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resolution of Intention Oakland City Council Municipal Improvement written by Oakland (Calif.). City Council and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book PLAN FOR CIVIC IMPROVEMENT FOR THE CITY OF OAKLAND CALIFORNIA written by CHARLES MULFORD. ROBINSON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Plan for Civic Improvement for the City of Oakland California Classic Reprint written by Charles Mulford Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Plan for Civic Improvement for the City of Oakland, California Gentlemen: You have instructed me to examine the city of Oakland with a view to suggesting such changes as may add to its attractiveness and enhance its civic beauty. Since concluding the investigations made in response to this request, the city of San Francisco has suffered from such a calamity that in the first rush of sympathy it has seemed a heartless and inappropriate act to plan for the pleasures and beauty of a neighboring community. But in the larger view, in the light of calm consideration rather than of emotion, this must appear to be a wise procedure. The citizens of San Francisco themselves are planning for a greater city; and however necessary for you such forethought may before have seemed, the recent events has added vastly to its importance. Oakland can hardly fail, now to increase even more rapidly than heretofore in population and in business. To increasing extent it must become more than the dormitory of San Francisco, - while becoming that also with more than former emphasis. You have to plan for a great city, and for a population that to a peculiar extent will need parks and pleasure grounds; and if these reservations are not chosen now, the cost and general difficulties of securing them will grow much more rapidly than will your ability to meet them. What is not planned for at this propitiously early date may never be obtained. Indeed, there are few cities that, with a power to prepare for the future, are given the opportunity to for see it with such clearness as it may now be confidently predicted here. Nor is it heartless thus to consider your own future. The future Oakland will certainly be the home of many of tho see who have recently suffered in San Francisco. It can scarcely be doubted that in anticipating that you are as certainly planning for the pleasure and comfort of thousands of them as for the happiness and well-being of yourselves. But before drawing a picture of the Oakland you ought to make, we must consider the Oakland that is. It were idle to contemplate revolutionary schemes. In order that the city may prosper while it grows there is needed, not a new Oakland, but a developed Oakland. I conceive it my duty to study what can be made out of Oakland, not how it might be made over. And let me say here that I have found the pursuit of these investigations a most inspiring and pleasant task, not alone because of the city's lovely natural setting and the need that advantage be taken of this while time remains, but because of the administrations tireless and cordial co-operation in the work and of the confident and generous backing by the press. City Building A Science. Nor shall we be dealing with only esthetic needs. Modern city building is a science quite as much assert. It has to do also with social, moral, commercial and industrial problems, for the beautifying of a city is not artistically done and, therefore not well done, unless it incidentally helps to solve such questions just as these problems -have not been solved properly until their solutions incidentally add to the- beauty of the city. For beauty is not an ornament to be stuck on. Its essence lies in its structural utility. We must consider, therefore, not merely the superficial beauty of the city, but the convenience of its traffic, the social and economic as certainly as the toporraphical divisions of the urban territory; the items of fire protection and of hygienic requirements, of property values; the future needs as well as the present, and the consistency of the whole plan as well as excellence of details. I shall go into no discussion of all this, as it would take a volume; but, underlying every recommendation, I can assure you, there will have been consideration of these many factors.
Download or read book The Second Gold Rush written by Marilynn S. Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-12-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At last, a close-in account of California during its moment of rebirth, World War II. . . . A book that helps us to understand California's past and also its present."—James N. Gregory, author of American Exodus
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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 American Babylon written by Robert O. Self and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-28 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in postwar Oakland As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland and its nearby suburbs, tracing both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics. Robert Self shows that racial inequities in both New Deal and Great Society liberalism precipitated local struggles over land, jobs, taxes, and race within postwar metropolitan development. Black power and the tax revolt evolved together, in tension. American Babylon demonstrates that the history of civil rights and black liberation politics in California did not follow a southern model, but represented a long-term struggle for economic rights that began during the World War II years and continued through the rise of the Black Panthers in the late 1960s. This struggle yielded a wide-ranging and profound critique of postwar metropolitan development and its foundation of class and racial segregation. Self traces the roots of the 1978 tax revolt to the 1940s, when home owners, real estate brokers, and the federal government used racial segregation and industrial property taxes to forge a middle-class lifestyle centered on property ownership. Using the East Bay as a starting point, Robert Self gives us a richly detailed, engaging narrative that uniquely integrates the most important racial liberation struggles and class politics of postwar America.
Download or read book The Civic Center written by Thornton Kirkland Ware and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report of the Board of Public Works on Proposed Public Improvements in the City of Oakland written by Oakland (Calif.). Board of Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
