Author: James Haas
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 194890814X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391
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San Francisco is known and loved around the world for its iconic man-made structures, such as the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and Transamerica Pyramid. Yet its Civic Center, with the grandest collection of monumental municipal buildings in the United States, is often overlooked, drawing less global and local interest, despite its being an urban planning marvel featuring thirteen government office and cultural buildings. In The San Francisco Civic Center, James Haas tells the complete story of San Francisco’s Civic Center and how it became one of the most complete developments envisioned by any American city. Originally planned and designed by John Galen Howard in 1912, the San Francisco Civic Center is considered in both design and materials one of the finest achievements of the American reformist City Beautiful movement, an urban design movement that began more than a century ago. Haas meticulously unravels the Civic Center’s story of perseverance and dysfunction, providing an understanding and appreciation of this local and national treasure. He discusses why the Civic Center was built, how it became central to the urban planning initiatives of San Francisco in the early twentieth century, and how the site held onto its founders’ vision despite heated public debates about its function and achievement. He also delves into the vision for the future and related national trends in city planning and the architectural and art movements that influenced those trends. Riddled with inspiration and leadership as well as controversy, The San Francisco Civic Center, much like the complex itself, is a stunning manifestation of the confident spirit of one of America’s most dynamic and creative cities.
The San Francisco Civic Center
Planning, Current Literature
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Pages : 460
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Report
Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Dept. of Public Works
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Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Pages : 486
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Base Closure for Presidio of San Francisco
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Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Pages : 438
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San Francisco Federal Building, San Francisco County
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Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Pages : 650
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San Francisco International Airport Expansion
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Pages : 574
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Pages : 574
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City Planning
Author: George Clinton Bestor
Publisher: Sacramento, Calif. : California Council of Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Publisher: Sacramento, Calif. : California Council of Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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The San Francisco Bay Area
Author: Mel Scott
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520055124
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520055124
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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City Planning Progress in the United States, 1917
Author: American Institute of Architects. Committee on Town Planning
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Journal of the American Institute of Architects
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Journal of the American Institute of Architects
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Journal of the American Institute of Architects
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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