San Francisco Bay Bridges
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Bridges |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Bridges |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Dillon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0890878595 |
The construction of the Golden Gate and the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridges caught the imagination of the world, and they continue to inspire awe even today. >High Steel records the history of these magnificent bridges and their development. The bridges were designed to serve transportation needs while being flexible enough to withstand major earthquakes, but their architectural triumph is that they also enhance the beauty of their natural surroundings. >High Steel is a tribute to and record of the magnitude of that accomplishment.
Author | : Michael C. Healy |
Publisher | : Heyday.ORIM |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1597143812 |
An insider’s “indispensible” behind-the-scenes history of the transit system of San Francisco and surrounding counties (Houston Chronicle). In the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider’s account of the rapid transit system’s inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operations, warts and all. With a master storyteller’s wit and sharp attention to detail, Healy recreates the politically fraught venture to bring a new kind of public transit to the West Coast. What emerges is a sense of the individuals who made (and make) BART happen. From tales of staying up until 3:00 a.m. with BART pioneers Bill Stokes and Jack Everson to hear the election results for the rapid transit vote to stories of weathering scandals, strikes, and growing pains, this look behind the scenes of an iconic, seemingly monolithic structure reveals people at their most human—and determined to change the status quo. “The Metro. The T. The Tube. The world's most famous subway systems are known by simple monikers, and San Francisco's BART belongs in that class. Michael C. Healy delivers a tour-de-force telling of its roots, hard-fought approval, and challenging construction that will delight fans of American urban history.”—Doug Most, author of The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John V. Robinson |
Publisher | : America Through Time |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2016-11-28 |
Genre | : San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) |
ISBN | : 9781634990141 |
On May 21, 1927 the Carquinez Bridge opened to traffic between Crockett and Vallejo, California. Just a few miles north of San Francisco, the Carquinez Bridge was the longest highway bridge in the world when it opened. It was also the first bridge across any part of the San Francisco Bay. The reason you have never heard of this magnificent bridge is because its opening was upstaged by Charles Lindbergh's landing in Paris! For most of its working life the Carquinez Bridge lived in the shadow of its more famous siblings: the Oakland Bay Bridge and the mighty Golden Gate Bridge. Still, the Carquinez Bridge was an engineering triumph. Designed by the great engineer David Steinman, the mighty Carquinez was built using new construction techniques and was the first bridge to use earthquake buffers in the design. A second twin Bridge was opened in 1958 and third replacement bridge was opened in 2003. From 2005 through 2007 the old bridge was deconstructed in reverse order of its construction. In this book John V. Robinson takes readers on a photographic journey through time as he documents the birth, life, and death of one of America's great bridges.
Author | : Louise Dyble |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780812241471 |
Drawing on previously unavailable archives, Paying the Toll describes the high-stakes struggles for control of the Golden Gate Bridge, and offers a rare inside look at the powerful and secretive agency that built a regional transportation empire with its toll revenue.
Author | : Kate Conley |
Publisher | : Core Library |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781641852548 |
The Golden Gate Bridge, spanning San Francisco Bay in California, has become an iconic symbol of the city of San Francisco. Engineering the Golden Gate Bridge discusses its designer, Joseph Strauss, examines how workers constructed the mammoth bridge, and explores the structure's lasting impact. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Author | : Steven Friedman |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738508757 |
San Francisco, the flamboyant and cosmopolitan city by the bay and its neighboring municipalities, was born to tell stories upon stories. Ranging in ages from 68 to 91, the narrators reflect the ethnic and religious diversity of a metropolis that has been a pioneer of several social, political, and cultural movements. They also stretch across both ends of the economic spectrum. A Japanese-American woman describes the harsh humiliation of internment during World War II, while an Irish Catholic man fondly remembers being a paperboy in the same neighborhood for ten years--until he was 20. An African-American woman from Marin City explains why she'll never sell the quilts she makes. Another woman recalls kissing under the Golden Gate Bridge with the man who eventually became her husband. The book also utilizes more than 80 photographs from the narrators and the collections of local libraries, museums, and historical societies to complement the poignant, humorous, and revealing portraits of the people and places of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Author | : United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 960 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Harbors |
ISBN | : |
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.