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Skateboard Studies (Paperback)
Konstantin Butz, Christian Peters; Text written by Iain Borden, Konstantin Butz, Ocean Howell, …
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R971
Discovery Miles 9 710
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In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of
the city's iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development
plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would
be calling the shots. Ever since, the Mission has become known as a
city within a city, and a place where residents have, over the last
century, organized and reorganized themselves to make the
neighborhood in their own image. In Making the Mission, Ocean
Howell tells the story of how residents of the Mission District
organized to claim the right to plan their own neighborhood and how
they mobilized a politics of place and ethnicity to create a
strong, often racialized identity-a pattern that would repeat
itself again and again throughout the twentieth century. Surveying
the perspectives of formal and informal groups, city officials and
district residents, local and federal agencies, Howell articulates
how these actors worked with and against one another to establish
the very ideas of the public and the public interest, as well as to
negotiate and renegotiate what the neighborhood wanted. In the
process, he shows that national narratives about how cities grow
and change are fundamentally insufficient; everything is always
shaped by local actors and concerns.
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