Enhancing San Francisco Neighborhoods
Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Urban Forest Council
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 4
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Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Urban Forest Council
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 4
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ashish Vasant Karode
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Brandi
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780738529974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen youre in West Portal and the adjacent Forest Hill and St. Francis Wood, its hard to believe youre still in San Francisco. These quiet and picturesque neighborhoods are decidedly non-urban, yet they are connected by a streetcar tunnel that leads under Twin Peaks to the bustling downtown area, two miles through the citys mountainous core. In fact, West Portal is named for the western end of this tunnel, which opened in 1917 to bring residents from the city center to what were new garden suburbs. Originally West Portal was sandy and scruffy, while Forest Hill and St. Francis Wood were heavily forested. The neighborhoods grew rapidly in the 1920s, and today West Portal is a popular shopping and entertainment district, while St. Francis Wood and Forest Hill boast some of the citys finest architecture and landscaping.
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Manuel Pastor
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 66
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: San Francisco (Calif.). Department of City Planning
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Bureau of Justice Assistance
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David J. Wright
Publisher: Rockefeller Institute Press
Published: 2002-01-03
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1438436491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Neighborhood Preservation Initiative, a comprehensive community building program in ten neighborhoods from nine mostly mid-sized cities, is examined in It Takes a Neighborhood. Wright shows what was learned through NPI about the value of focusing on working-class neighborhoods, as well as how to think about and structure community building efforts generally. The lessons gained from NPI about engaging established, networked community organizations in deliberate action-oriented strategies, fueled by flexible funding, and linked to systems of local support, are shown to be applicable to a wide spectrum of community building initiatives. The Pew Charitable Trusts created the NPI, targeting it toward working-class neighborhoods threatened but not yet affected deeply by decline, a significant departure from previous community development efforts. The neighborhoods possessed important assets such as strong community organizations, talented volunteers, and neighborhood strategies that could be capitalized upon, neighborhood strengths that could be reinforced through relatively small investments as a way to prevent decline. Along with generating attention to working-class neighborhoods and public policy on their behalf, the goal of NPI was to help residents to improve their quality of life and learn how to sustain long-term community stability and vitality.