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DESCRIPTION:Alison Isenberg, Professor of History and Co-Director of the Princeton 
 Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, & the Humanities presents her 
 new book Designing San Francisco, the untold story of the formative postwar 
 decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of 
 the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Isenberg 
 shifts the focus from architects and city planners--those most often hailed 
 in histories of urban development and design--to the unsung artists, 
 activists, and others who played pivotal roles in rebuilding San Francisco 
 between the 1940s and the 1970s.\n\nPrevious accounts of midcentury urban 
 renewal have focused on the opposing terms set down by Robert Moses and 
 Jane Jacobs--put simply, development versus preservation--and have followed 
 New York City models. Now Isenberg turns our attention west to colorful, 
 pioneering, and contentious San Francisco, where unexpectedly fierce 
 battles were waged over iconic private and public projects like Ghirardelli 
 Square, Golden Gateway, and the Transamerica Pyramid.\n\nWhen large-scale 
 redevelopment came to low-rise San Francisco in the 1950s, the resulting 
 rivalries and conflicts sparked the proliferation of numerous allied arts 
 fields and their professionals, including architectural model makers, real 
 estate publicists, graphic designers, photographers, property managers, 
 builders, sculptors, public-interest lawyers, alternative press writers, 
 and preservationists. Isenberg explores how these centrally engaged arts 
 professionals brought new ideas to city, regional, and national planning 
 and shape novel projects across urban, suburban, and rural borders. San 
 Francisco's rebuilding galvanized far-reaching critiques of the inequitable 
 competition for scarce urban land, and propelled debates over responsible 
 public land stewardship. Isenberg challenges many truisms of this renewal 
 era--especially the presumed male domination of postwar urban design, 
 showing how women collaborated in city building long before feminism's 
 impact in the 1970s.\n\nAn evocative portrait of one of the world's great 
 cities, Designing San Francisco provides a new paradigm for understanding 
 past and present struggles to define the urban future. \n\nThere is no 
 admission charge.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/08/18/18801715.php
SUMMARY:Designing San Francisco: The Untold Story of How Artists and Activists Shaped Postwar SF
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\nSan Francisco, CA  94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/08/18/18801715.php
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