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Book The Gateway to the Pacific

    Book Details:
  • Author : Meredith Oda
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2019-01-03
  • ISBN : 022659274X
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book The Gateway to the Pacific written by Meredith Oda and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco’s identity as the “Gateway to the Pacific,” using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newfound celebration of its Japanese and other Asian American residents, its economy linked with Asia, and its favorable location for transpacific partnerships. The most conspicuous testament to San Francisco’s postwar transpacific connections is the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center in the city’s redeveloped Japanese-American enclave. Focusing on the development of the Center, Meredith Oda shows how this multilayered story was embedded within a larger story of the changing institutions and ideas that were shaping the city. During these formative decades, Oda argues, San Francisco’s relations with and ideas about Japan were being forged within the intimate, local sites of civic and community life. This shift took many forms, including changes in city leadership, new municipal institutions, and especially transformations in the built environment. Newly friendly relations between Japan and the United States also meant that Japanese Americans found fresh, if highly constrained, job and community prospects just as the city’s African Americans struggled against rising barriers. San Francisco’s story is an inherently local one, but it also a broader story of a city collectively, if not cooperatively, reimagining its place in a global economy.

Book The Contested City

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  • Author : John H. Mollenkopf
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1983-11-21
  • ISBN : 9780691022208
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book The Contested City written by John H. Mollenkopf and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1983-11-21 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes case studies of Boston (Mass) and San Francisco.

Book Report

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2390 pages

Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on with total page 2390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports and Documents

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1984 pages

Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hollow City

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  • Author : Rebecca Solnit
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2018-11-06
  • ISBN : 1788731360
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Hollow City written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents. Wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty.

Book Report

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  • Author : United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 832 pages

Download or read book Report written by United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report

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  • Author : United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1534 pages

Download or read book Annual Report written by United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Left Coast City

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  • Author : Richard Edward DeLeon
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Left Coast City written by Richard Edward DeLeon and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insight into how San Francisco's progressive coalition developed between 1975 and 1991, what stresses emerged to cause splintering within the coalition, and how it fell apart in the 1991 mayoral campaign. DeLeon analyzes the success and failures of the progressive movement as it toppled the business-dominated pro-growth regime, imposed stringent controls on growth and development, and achieved political control of city hall.

Book Journal of the Senate  Legislature of the State of California

Download or read book Journal of the Senate Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 2820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ten Years That Shook the City

Download or read book Ten Years That Shook the City written by Chris Carlsson and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alliances, programs, and goals of a historic decade that continues to shape SF and the world.

Book Living Downtown

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  • Author : Paul Groth
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-11-10
  • ISBN : 0520312791
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book Living Downtown written by Paul Groth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments.

Book San Francisco  Community Development and Housing Proposal

Download or read book San Francisco Community Development and Housing Proposal written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Public Works

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Public Works written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Papers Submitted to Subcommittee on Housing Panels on Housing Production  Housing Demand  and Developing a Suitable Living Environment

Download or read book Papers Submitted to Subcommittee on Housing Panels on Housing Production Housing Demand and Developing a Suitable Living Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Law in Action

Download or read book Law in Action written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The effects of proposed budgetary cutbacks for fiscal year 1974 in the community relations service  March 22  April 11 and 12  1973

Download or read book The effects of proposed budgetary cutbacks for fiscal year 1974 in the community relations service March 22 April 11 and 12 1973 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 4 and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: