Historical View, Yerba Buena and Treasure Islands
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Treasure Island (San Francisco, Calif.) |
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Treasure Island (San Francisco, Calif.) |
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Author | : Lynne Horiuchi |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780824866020 |
In the midst of a twenty-first-century high-tech boom and in one of the most expensive real-estate markets in the world, the city of San Francisco and its developers have proposed an ambitious model of military base reuse and green urbanism-a new eco-city of about 19,000 residents on Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island. The project is synonymous with a growing global trend toward large-scale, capital-intensive land developments envisioned around ideas of sustainability and spectacular place making. Seen against the successive history of development, future visions for Treasure Island are part of a process of building and erasure that Horiuchi and Sankalia call urban reinventions. This is a process of radical change in which artificial, detached, and delimited sites such as Treasure Island provide an ideal plane for tabula rasa planning driven by property, capital, and state control.
Author | : Jason Pipes |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738547428 |
Reclaimed from a sandy shoal in the San Francisco Bay, Treasure Island is a man-made creation built in 1936 during the same era that saw the construction of such California icons as the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge. Situated next to rocky Yerba Buena Island, it was initially planned to serve as the location of the new San Francisco airport, but its first official duty was to host the 1939 World's Fair. The island's amazing and varied history includes the Golden Gate International Exposition, a U.S. naval station, a Pan-American seaplane base, mock nuclear tests, tragic fires, and many more dramatic events since it rose from the bay. In addition, a number of historic structures remain on Treasure Island, largely frozen in time since they were constructed in 1936.
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Total Pages | : 918 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Environmental impact statements |
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Author | : United States. Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Advanced Systems and Concepts Office |
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Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Influenza |
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Author | : Anthony F. Turhollow |
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Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Coastwise navigation |
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Author | : Walter Hood |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2020-12-09 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0813944872 |
The question "Do black landscapes matter?" cuts deep to the core of American history. From the plantations of slavery to contemporary segregated cities, from freedman villages to northern migrations for freedom, the nation’s landscape bears the detritus of diverse origins. Black landscapes matter because they tell the truth. In this vital new collection, acclaimed landscape designer and public artist Walter Hood assembles a group of notable landscape architecture and planning professionals and scholars to probe how race, memory, and meaning intersect in the American landscape. Essayists examine a variety of U.S. places—ranging from New Orleans and Charlotte to Milwaukee and Detroit—exposing racism endemic in the built environment and acknowledging the widespread erasure of black geographies and cultural landscapes. Through a combination of case studies, critiques, and calls to action, contributors reveal the deficient, normative portrayals of landscape that affect communities of color and question how public design and preservation efforts can support people in these places. In a culture in which historical omissions and specious narratives routinely provoke disinvestment in minority communities, creative solutions by designers, planners, artists, and residents are necessary to activate them in novel ways. Black people have built and shaped the American landscape in ways that can never be fully known. Black Landscapes Matter is a timely and necessary reminder that without recognizing and reconciling these histories and spaces, America’s past and future cannot be understood.