San Francisco Focus

Author : Sabrina Crawford
Publisher : First Books
ISBN 13 : 9780912301631
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newcomer's Handbook for Moving to and Living in the San Francisco Bay Area written by Sabrina Crawford and published by First Books. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rachel Brahinsky
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520288378
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area written by Rachel Brahinsky and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation. A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area looks beyond the mythologized image of San Francisco to the places where collective struggle has built the region. Countering romanticized commercial narratives about the Bay Area, geographers Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr highlight the cultural and economic landscape of indigenous resistance to colonial rule, radical interracial and cross-class organizing against housing discrimination and police violence, young people demanding economically and ecologically sustainable futures, and the often-unrecognized labor of farmworkers and everyday people. The book asks who had—and who has—the power to shape the geography of one of the most watched regions in the world. As Silicon Valley's wealth dramatically transforms the look and feel of every corner of the region, like bankers' wealth did in the past, what do we need to remember about the people and places that have made the Bay Area, with its rich political legacies? With over 100 sites that you can visit and learn from, this book demonstrates critical ways of reading the landscape itself for clues to these histories. A useful companion for travelers, educators, or longtime residents, this guide links multicultural streets and lush hills to suburban cul-de-sacs and wetlands, stretching from the North Bay to the South Bay, from the East Bay to San Francisco. Original maps help guide readers, and thematic tours offer starting points for creating your own routes through the region.

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Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book San Francisco Focus written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gray A. Brechin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520229020
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial San Francisco written by Gray A. Brechin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Imperial San Francisco" provides a myth-shattering interpretation of the hidden costs that the growth of San Francisco has exacted on its surrounding regions, presenting along the way a revolutionary new theory of urban development".--"Palo Alto Daily News". 86 photos.

Author : Gray Brechin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520933486
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial San Francisco written by Gray Brechin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families—the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others—who gained power through mining, ranching, water and energy, transportation, real estate, weapons, and the mass media. The story uncovered by Gray Brechin is one of greed and ambition on an epic scale. Brechin arrives at a new way of understanding urban history as he traces the connections between environment, economy, and technology and discovers links that led, ultimately, to the creation of the atomic bomb and the nuclear arms race. In a new preface, Brechin considers the vulnerability of cities in the post-9/11 twenty-first century.

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Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony Ashbolt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317321871
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of the Radical Sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area written by Anthony Ashbolt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The San Francisco Bay Area was a meeting point for radical politics and counterculture in the 1960s. Until now there has been little understanding of what made political culture here unique. This work explores the development of a regional culture of radicalism in the Bay Area, one that underpinned both political protest and the counterculture.

Author : James Brook
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872863354
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming San Francisco written by James Brook and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming San Francisco is an anthology of fresh appraisals of the contrarian spirit of the city-a spirit "resistant to authority or control." The official story of San Francisco is one of progress, development, and growth. But there are other, unofficial, San Francisco stories, often shrouded in myth and in danger of being forgotten, and they are told here: stories of immigrants and minorities, sailors and waterfront workers, and poets, artists, and neighborhood activists-along with the stories of speculators, land-grabbers, and the land itself that need to be told differently. Contributors include historians, geographers, poets, novelists, artists, art historians, photographers, journalists, citizen activists, an architect, and an anthropologist. Passionate about the city, they want San Francisco to be more itself and less like the city of office towers, chain stores, theme parks, and privatized public services and property that appears to be its immediate fate. San Francisco is not alone in being transformed according to the dictates of the global economy. But San Franciscans are unusual in their readiness to confront the corporate agenda for their city.

Author : James O'Reilly
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
ISBN 13 : 9781885211859
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travelers' Tales San Francisco written by James O'Reilly and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pacific surf to Nob Hill to Chinatown, the legendary City by the Bay comes to life in this diverse collection of essays celebrating America's favorite playground. Praise the Lord at Glide Memorial Church, skate through the wonders of Golden Gate Park, discover culinary delights in the Mission, and relive the days of the gold rush.

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Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book San Francisco Business written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: