Local Protests, Global Movements : Capital, Community, and State in San Francisco

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Beitel, Karl.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• City planning--California--San Francisco--Citizen participation.
• Housing--California--San Francisco.
• Social movements--California--San Francisco.
• Urban policy--California--San Francisco--Citizen participation.
• Urban renewal--California--San Francisco--Citizen participation.
• Housing--Citizen participation--California--San Francisco.
• City planning--Citizen participation--California--San Francisco.
• Urban renewal--Citizen participation--California--San Francisco.
• Urban policy--California--San Francisco.

Local Subjects:

• City planning--California--San Francisco--Citizen participation.
• Housing--California--San Francisco.
• Social movements--California--San Francisco.
• Urban policy--California--San Francisco--Citizen participation.
• Urban renewal--California--San Francisco--Citizen participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A history of the antigentrification and housing rights movement in San Francisco, Local Protests, Global Movements examines the ability of local urban movements to engage in meaningful contestation with private real estate capital and area governmental leaders in the era of urban neoliberalism.Using San Francisco as an illuminating case study, Beitel analyzes the innovative ways urban social movements have organized around issues regarding land use, housing, urban ecology, and health care on the local level to understand the changing nature of protest formation around the w

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Situating San Francisco; 2. Constructing San Francisco's Growth Control and Housing Rights Movements; 3. A Framework for the Analysis of Urban Movements; 4. Dot-com Boom and Struggles in the Mission; 5. The Public-Private Partnership: The Case of Mission Bay; 6. Urban Movements and the Question of Urban Governance; 7. Local and Global Implications of San Francisco; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

• 9781439909966
• 1439909962

OCLC:

841171268