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City for Sale - The Transformation of San Francisco (Paperback, Revised ed)
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City for Sale - The Transformation of San Francisco (Paperback, Revised ed)
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San Francisco is perhaps the most exhilarating of all American
cities - its beauty, cultural and political avant-gardism and
history are legendary, while its idiosyncrasies make front-page
news. In this revised edition of his study of San Francisco's
economic and political development since the mid-1950s, Chester
Hartman gives a detailed account of how the city has been
transformed by the expansion - outward and upward - of its
downtown. His story is fuelled by a wide range of players and an
array of events, from police storming the International Hotel to
citizens forcing the midair termination of a freeway. Throughout,
Hartman raises a troubling question: can San Francisco's unique
qualities survive the changes that have altered the city's skyline,
neighbourhoods and economy??;pHartman was directly involved in many
of the events he chronicles and thus had access to sources that
might otherwise have been unavailable. A former activist with the
National Housing Law Project, San Franciscans for Affordable
Housing and other neighborhood organizations, he explains how
corporate San Francisco obtained the necessary cooperation of city
and federal governments in undertaking massive redevel
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