Alison Isenberg: Designing San Francisco, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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"Alison Isenberg's Designing San Francisco explores a series of controversies from the 1940s through the 1970s, decades when activists, artists, environmentalists, and preservationists challenged establishment approaches to land use, public sculpture, and urban redevelopment in the Bay Area. Her fascinating book is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design."--Dolores Hayden, Yale University, author of The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History

"Designing San Francisco makes a major contribution to the history and practice of urban planning and architecture. Probing deeply into how urban plans are worked out on the ground by a broad cast of city builders, Isenberg offers the first serious and persuasive alternative to the longstanding binary opposition between the partisans of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses."--Mary P. Ryan, author of Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men through American History

"Masterful and compelling."--Julia L. Foulkes, author of To the City: Urban Photographs of the New Deal