The San Francisco Bay Area : A Metropolis in Perspective / Mel Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Mel, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed., Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

CHAPTER ONE. Heritage

CHAPTER TWO. Mother of Cities

CHAPTER THREE. The Plow, the Iron Horse, and New Towns

CHAPTER FOUR. Urban Rivalries

CHAPTER FIVE. The Heyday of Enterprise

CHAPTER SIX. The Burnham Plan for San Francisco

CHAPTER SEVEN. The New San Francisco

CHAPTER EIGHT. Oakland— The End of the Village Tradition

CHAPTER NINE. The Greater San Francisco Movement

CHAPTER TEN. The Panama Canal— Stimulus to Planning

CHAPTER ELEVEN. Seeds of Metropolitan Regionalism

CHAPTER TWELVE. Fred Dohrmann and the Regional Plan Association

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Prosperity and Projects

CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Progress in Troubled Times

CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Crisis in an Arsenal of Democracy

CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Postwar Planning

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. The Regional Metropolis

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. The Regional Metropolis Twenty-Five Years Later

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9780520323933

0520323939

OCLC:

1198929062