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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mitchell SchwarzerPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9780520381124ISBN 10: 0520381122 Pages: 424 Publication Date: 28 September 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I 1. Streetcar Stratification 2. Industrial Powerhouse Part II 3. Space for Automobiles 4. The Politics of Parks 5. Major League Venue Part III 6. The Promise and the Reality of Freeways and BART 7. In the Wake of Deindustrialization 8. Housing Injustice 9. Downtown Renewal and Ruin 10. Shopping Centers and Storefront Streets Coda Acknowledgments Notes Select Bibliography of Books about Oakland IndexReviewsSchwarzer's biography of Oakland is a big book, an important book, a powerful book and an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to reform the city by any means necessary. * CounterPunch * Noteworthy for several reasons, but one is its timeliness. Though Hella Town tells a familiar story - Oakland's rise as an industrial hub, its fall to the failings of racism, its still-troubled resurgence - the lens through which it makes sense of that story provides insights about how cities come to be (and why they fail) that prove eerily relevant to those writing Oakland's next act right now. . . . All who want Oakland's story to read, ultimately, as something other than tragic - more a celebration of all that makes this place uniquely great - should be aware of what building big things (or not building them) can do. Among other things, Hella Town is an excellent education to that end. * San Francisco Chronicle * A sparkling new history filled with lessons for our present. * SF Weekly * A model history of urban development, laying out the stages of 'Oakland's built environment' from its take-off in the last decade of the nineteenth century to the early years of the current century. * Geography Realm * From malls to shipyards to housing in the hills, Mitchell Schwarzer's book is a sweeping history of development and power. * Oaklandside * The book will likely stir interest among faculty, students, and practitioners in urban planning and design, architecture, and urban history. Readers longing for a heavily descriptive account of Oakland's urbanization will admire the extent to which the narrative offers a factual extravaganza of the components of the city's built environment. * Journal of Urban Affairs * Maintains a delicate balance between analyzing how Oakland's history represents attributes common to many US cities while preserving distinctive characteristics. . . . Hella Town is an urban history well worth the attention of scholars concerned with the 20th-century American city and of a wider audience interested in the San Francisco Bay Area. * CHOICE * Schwarzer's biography of Oakland is a big book, an important book, a powerful book and an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to reform the city by any means necessary. * CounterPunch * Author InformationMitchell Schwarzer is Professor of Architectural and Urban History at the California College of the Arts, Oakland and San Francisco. His books include Architecture of the San Francisco Bay Area; Zoomscape: Architecture in Motion and Media; and German Architectural Theory and the Search for Modern Identity. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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