Latinos at the Golden Gate
Author: Tomás F. Summers Sandoval (Jr.)
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1469607662
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Author: Tomás F. Summers Sandoval (Jr.)
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1469607662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco
Author: Kevin Starr
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-07-15
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 160819292X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Golden Gate Bridge links the urbanity of San Francisco with the wild headlands of Marin County, as if to suggest the paradox of California and America itself-the place that Fitzgerald saw as the last spot commensurate with the human capacity for wonder. The bridge, completed in 1937, also announced to the world America's engineering prowess and full assumption of its destined continental dominance. The Golden Gate is a counterpart to the Statue of Liberty, pronouncing American achievement in an unmistakable American fashion. The nation's very history is expressed in the bridge's art deco style and stark verticality. Kevin Starr's Golden Gate is a brilliant and passionate telling of the history of the bridge, and the rich and peculiar history of the California experience. The Golden Gate is a grand public work, a symbol and a very real bridge, a magnet for both postcard photographs and suicides. In this compact but comprehensive narrative, Starr unfolds the hidden-in-plain-sight meaning of the Golden Gate, putting it in its place among classic works of art.
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Published: 1872
Total Pages: 858
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 576
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 508
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 474
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 616
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011-10-11
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0812206886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its opening in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge has become an icon for the beauty and prosperity of the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as a symbol of engineering achievement. Constructing the bridge posed political and financial challenges that were at least as difficult as those faced by the project's builders. To meet these challenges, northern California boosters created a new kind of agency: an autonomous, self-financing special district. The Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District developed into a powerful organization that shaped the politics and government of the Bay Area as much as the bridge shaped its physical development. From the moment of the bridge district's incorporation in 1928, its managers pursued their own agenda. They used all the resources at their disposal to preserve their control over the bridge, cultivating political allies, influencing regional policy, and developing an ambitious public relations program. Undaunted by charges of mismanagement and persistent efforts to turn the bridge (as well as its lucrative tolls) over to the state, the bridge district expanded into mass transportation, taking on ferry and bus operations to ensure its survival to this day. Drawing on previously unavailable archives, Paying the Toll gives us an inside view of the world of high-stakes development, cronyism, and bureaucratic power politics that have surrounded the Golden Gate Bridge since its inception.