Civic-Center-Plaza San Francisco
Author: Kerstin S. Hellmann
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 92
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Author: Kerstin S. Hellmann
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Haas
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 194890814X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSan 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.
Author: Mary Hardy
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Published: 1983
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joan E. Draper
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James W. Haas
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 85
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Keilty
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barbara George
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 61
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The State Building in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza has been home to the Califormia Supreme Court for more than 70 years. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake forced the court from its historic headquarters and launched a project of restoration and rebuilding that spanned nearly 10 years. The historic State Building, renamed the Earl Warren Building, and the new Hiram W. Johnson State Office Building were completed in 1999 and now provide a fitting hore for the state Supreme Court as well as other judicial and state government offices"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Art Commission
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Shellenberger
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2021-10-12
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0063093634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNational bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities. Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse. Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, affordable housing, and alternatives to jail and prison. But as homeless encampments spread, and overdose deaths skyrocketed, Shellenberger decided to take a closer look at the problem. What he discovered shocked him. The problems had grown worse not despite but because of progressive policies. San Francisco and other West Coast cities — Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland — had gone beyond merely tolerating homelessness, drug dealing, and crime to actively enabling them. San Fransicko reveals that the underlying problem isn’t a lack of housing or money for social programs. The real problem is an ideology that designates some people, by identity or experience, as victims entitled to destructive behaviors. The result is an undermining of the values that make cities, and civilization itself, possible.