Designing San Francisco : art, land, and urban renewal in the City by the Bay /

A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco Designing San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenber...

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Main Author: Isenberg, Alison (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction Land and Landscape; 1 The Illustrated Pitch "Guys with Ideas" and the 1940s Vision for a Historic Waterfront District; 2 "Not Bound by an Instinct to Preserve" The Modernist Turn toward History; 3 "Culture-a-Go-Go" The Mermaid Sculpture Controversy and the Liberation of Civic Design; 4 Married Merchant-Builders From Home-Making to City Planning in the Postwar Suburban Boom; 5 Managing Property An "Iffy" Collaboration; 6 Movers and Shakers Publicists and the Writing of Real Estate; 7 "Urban Renewal with Paint" Graphic Design and the City. 
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